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| crater |
a bowl-shaped depression with a raised rim, such as the mouth of a volcano or geyser, or the circular depressions on the surface of the moon, usu. with a mountain at their center. [1/3 definitions] |
| ejecta |
material thrown out, as from a volcano. |
| eruct |
to spew forth violently, as lava from a volcano. [1/2 definitions] |
| extinct |
no longer alive or active, as a volcano or fire. [1/3 definitions] |
| lahar |
a mudflow down the side of a volcano, or the deposit left by such a mudflow. |
| lava |
molten rock erupting from a volcano or volcanic fissure. [1/2 definitions] |
| magma |
the hot, liquefied rock beneath the earth's surface that rises to the top of a volcano. [1/2 definitions] |
| Nevado del Ruiz |
a Colombian volcano that erupted in 1985 after having been dormant for 150 years, causing 23,000 deaths in what was the world's second most deadly volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. |
| nuée ardente |
a thick volcanic cloud that explodes and pours down the sides of a volcano. |
| slag |
the cinderlike lava from a volcano. [1/3 definitions] |
| Vesuvius |
an active volcano in southwestern Italy that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 A.D.; Mount Vesuvius. |
| volcanic |
of, characterized by, or relating to a volcano or volcanoes. [1/3 definitions] |
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