volcanic eruption


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Noun1.volcanic eruption - the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic materialvolcanic eruption - the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material
discharge - the sudden giving off of energy
Plinian eruption - a volcanic eruption in which a stream of gas and ash is violently ejected to a height of several miles
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She gathered up her baby once more; but when her eye fell upon its miserably short little gray tow-linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother-heart was touched, and she was ashamed.
The unusual spectacle of her busy mother rocking comfortably and reading early in the morning made Jo feel as if some unnatural phenomenon had occurred, for an eclipse, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption would hardly have seemed stranger.
All in the same fraction of an instant, earthquake, tidal wave, volcanic eruption, the thunder of the heavens and the fire-flashing of an electric bolt from the sky smote him and smote consciousness out of him.
But a volcanic eruption is sterile, the ruin of the fertile ground.
"I have it!" said Good; "the road no doubt ran right over the range and across the desert on the other side, but the sand there has covered it up, and above us it has been obliterated by some volcanic eruption of molten lava."
He, along with Carnegie's Lei Duan (a former student from Zhejiang University), Long Cao of Zhejiang University, and Govindasamy Bala of the Indian Institute of Science, set out to compare the effects on the climate of a volcanic eruption and of solar geoengineering.
17 (Saba) The volcanic eruption of the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu-jima, about 1,000 km away from Tokyo, is home to about 100 people in the flow of ash and hot gases.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed on Thursday that it has tracked the Filipino national living near the volcanic eruption site in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Summary: Guatemala City [Guatemala], June 4 (ANI): The death toll in Guatemala's Fuego volcanic eruption rose to 25 people on Monday.
When Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began actively spewing lava and poisonous gases in early May, it was only the latest episode in a volcanic eruption that has been actively ongoing since 1983.
A single volcano can change the world's atmosphere, even permanently, depending on the intensity of the volcanic eruption, a pollution expert said.
A volcanic eruption in the Philippines forces mass evacuations, while another in Japan kills one person.