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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | An explosion resulting from the mixing of volcanic gases or magmas with ground water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | An explosion of steam, water, mud, and other material. May result from heating of groundwater by magma, and may generate base surges. (Miller, 1989) * A type of volcanic explosion that occurs when water comes in contact with hot rocks or ash near a volcanic vent, causing steam explosions. (Brantley, 1994) * An explosive volcanic eruption caused when water and heated volcanic rocks interact to produce a violent expulsion of steam and pulverized rocks. Magma is not involved. (Foxworthy and Hill, 1982)* The eruption of Taal Volcano in the Philippine Islands in 1965 typifies "Phreatic" (or steam-blast) behavior. Here, a great column of steam, dust, ash, and cinders is blasted to a height of several thousand feet. This type of violent eruption is believed to occur when a large quantity of ground or surface water comes in contact with hot rock or magma in a volcanic vent and is instantly and explosively flashed to steam. (Tilling, 1985). (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "PHREATIC ERUPTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | éruption phréatique. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eaticphray eruptionay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-t-t-u" | |
-4 letters: perpetration, perpetuation, picturephone, practitioner, precipitator, recuperation, theoretician, trichopteran. | |
-5 letters: chiropteran, counterpart, crepitation, interceptor, natriuretic, neuropathic, parenthetic, partitioner, parturition, peripatetic, perpetuator, precipitant, precipitate, proteinuria, reiteration, repartition, rhetorician, therapeutic, unpatriotic. | |
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