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How to use lava in a sentence

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I find the waves banging over the prom have a similar effect on me as a lava lamp.
The large volumes of lava erupted in the main phase of flood basalt volcanism seem to have overwhelmed any hydromagmatic influence.
As the lava continues extruding, it is forming a long, narrow, spinelike dome in the volcano's crater.
Bonsai-like Douglas firs and ponderosa pines animate the petrified lava flows of El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico.
Television footage showed lava flowing out of the crater while thick clouds of smoke rose upwards and a large fireball burst into the night sky.
The result was quite spectacular, as huge tongues of flame would shoot out of the openings, much like lava from an erupting volcano.
They consist of intrusive materials, breccias, tuffs and massive peripheral lava flows.
Even when she doesn't start it herself, she flies straight to trouble like beetles to a lava lamp.
A divergent boundary creates a large ridge that can fill with lava coming up from underneath, which quickly cools and becomes solid.
Obsidian as an igneous extrusive rock can be either glassy basaltic or rhyolitic, which commonly exhibits lava flow textures.
The group hovered along the surface, flying over the lava fields and dodging the rare incoming of a lava bomb.
The grounds are pocked with small lava pits, which are used to cook poultry and sides of beef donated by Methodist church groups.
The western range, called the Black Mountains, is a rugged terrain with numerous volcanic necks and lava flows.
It sloped uphill and from where they stood they could see the fiery sea of lava below.
Some areas of this lava formation are highly mineralized, whereas other equally large areas are hard, solid black basalt without any minerals.
Fresh manure, too, dollops of it ramping over the concrete lip of the stall floor like lava bombs flung from a brown volcano.
Thick sequences of basalts form the Morgedal and Gjuve formations and include series of sub-aerial lava flows.
Our emotions will be erupting like thermal steam vents, containing sharp silica glass shards from lava rock.
After the first hour or so of gentle ascent through a lava flow the climb steepens.
When gas from the magma chamber has been exhausted, the lava erupts more quietly to form a broader and lower edifice, a shield volcano.
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Now, two rivers of molten lava poured continually in, making the basin wider.
Gas emissions and volcanic tremors have been high for months and the volcano has expelled boulders and trickled lava in recent weeks.
The secret of how lava lamps work can be traced back to the molecular nature of oil and water.
During the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods large parts of the present subcontinent of India were flooded by multiple lava flows.
He decides on Fiona, who is prisoner in a castle on a rock, surrounded by molten lava and guarded by a fierce dragon.
The volcano-sedimentary sequence is characterized by lava flows alternating with grey shales and occasional red chert bands.
When looked at from the sides it seemed to be a near monochrome, but it also evoked vast expanses of lava seen from afar.
Activity at the summit is nearly continuous, characterized by occasional lava overflow and brief, highly explosive eruptions.
Red rivers of molten lava were scorching through Los Angeles neighborhoods.
They began some 190,000 years ago when a major volcano blew its top, spewing molten lava into nearby dry river beds.
The lava rippled around them and began to toss and shoot in all directions.
She shut her bedroom door with a click and lit her lime green lava lamp, glancing over at her clock to check the time.
You'd be at a party, and there would be a lava lamp blooping away, and a record playing.
Below him the volcano sunk into the Earth's crust, while bubbling lava spilled over it until it was entirely gone.
It has blowholes and lava tubes, the wettest spot on earth, and the nation's only royal palace.
On the east side of the river are scattered pastures and farm houses, and on the west side is an old lava flow covered with sagebrush.
Hydrothermal vents result from undersea cracks in the earth's crust, which allow lava and hot fluids to seep out.
Now they had grouped together against the steep slopes of a lava ridge, tails flicking, necks craning, heads turning.
As an added bonus, the lava would simultaneously pave roads and sidewalks when it hardens into a glassy smooth surface of igneous rock.
These four landform types are called lava flows, volcanic peaks, calderas, and volcanic necks.
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These volcanic necks are the remnants of upwelling lava from the cores of active volcanoes in prehistoric times.
The lava eventually breached the barriers, but it was hindered enough that it atrophied before scorching inhabited land.
The lava flows within the pyroclasts are composed of nephelinite and phonolite.
They suspect that part of the lava dome broke off, sending melted ice from a glacier onto hot rocks below.
The age of a find is usually estimated by dating the layers of rock or soil above and below it, most commonly lava fields in Japan.
Another way to protect a lunar base from radiation is to put it underground in a lava tube.
The party ran out of the palace and looked up in the sky and saw a swarm of what looked like lava bees holding lava bombs.
Video footage helps the controller navigate the robot and negotiate tough volcanic terrain from solidified lava flows to loose scree and rocks.
Channeled through a lava tube, the sea can roar and blow its spray as high as 50 feet.
The intercalated sedimentary beds were deposited on the tops of basaltic lava flows during periods of volcanic inactivity.
It could be the entrance to an old lava tube similar to those found in Hawaii.
We spend a few minutes inside a lava tube, in the pitch dark, listening to a primal silence.
We had everything from bleached surfer dudes to Tongan gentlemen wearing the traditional lava lava.
Some of the volcanic lava erupted as fiery fountains, forming heaps of glass spherules.
If the lava is very viscous, and there is a great deal of gas present, pumice is formed.
Old lava flows and beds of volcanic ash underlie the surface of much of this part of Colorado.
They fled their homes with a few personal belongings, escaping the acrid sulphuric fumes and lava of an erupting volcano.
You'll need a shower with real lava to cleanse your carcass of this crusty caca.
Flying into Kona, the plane passes low over turquoise water so clear I can see white sand and Black lava rocks through its shimmering depths.
The plates continue to spread apart, the crust cracks again, another eruption of lava occurs, and another dike forms.
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People were shown, apparently in distress, and a man was shown walking over lava to save a cask of Guinness from a damaged building.
George believed that the Grand Canyon had a soul, that it wasn't merely rocks, strata, and accumulated layers of lava and sediments.
The Lavajunkie Gallery is host to an array of striking pictures of lava flows.
The architecture of the lower lava sequence is now discussed on the centimetre to metre scale.
It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
During the past 250 million years, there have been 29 massive lava outpourings around the world, called large igneous provinces.
How about a hike through a mysterious creaking bamboo forest, into the darkness of a lava tube, or to a fern-draped waterfall-fed pool?
I am now looking for a good pair of hiking boots to withstand walking on lava in Hawaii.
Where volcanic material has been extruded on to a soft substrate, the rate of erosion of the substrate can exceed that of the lava flow.
Water falls were alive with the crashing of water on rock, rivers trickled, birds sang, people chattered, lava boiled and fires crackled.
It was a real treat because Jo wore cat's eye glasses and had a lava lamp in the waiting area.
Patrons are just as willing to take a paddleboat out on a lava lake as they were to go on a flume ride when it's zero degrees out and snowing.
It revealed that my computer outputs sound based on an iteration involving fifteen random infinite sets derived from a distributed lava lamp.
Herding cattle and galloping horses across rough a'a lava fields and smoother pahoehoe takes a special kind of cowboy-the Kona paniolo.
If you're not up for the entire trail, you can hike a short distance and still get to see panoramic views of cinder cones and lava flows.
As the lava walls of the cirque crumble they expel a constant dribble onto the dirty snow below.
A serpentine flow meanders through formations of smooth pahoehoe lava and rough aa lava, the same forms common in basalt lavas.
Very different from jagged aa, pahoehoe is the other general texture of newly solidified lava.
The lava from the Undara volcano travelled 164 km to create the longest lava flow from one single vent in modern geological time.
Columnar joints are best developed in sills and dykes, volcanic vents, and former lava lakes.
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The basalt lava in particular has been, and is still being, extensively quarried for road aggregate in many large quarries on those mountains.
A giant monster resembling a giant jellyfish emerged from the lava pool and wrapped its tentacles around Lupus.
Successful operation of any lava lamp depends on this relationship between the density of water and wax.
The surface of a lava flow weathers, particularly in wet climates, to form a rich, reddish volcanic soil, called a bole.
To the north, the second lava unit is by far the thickest, whereas the older unit is only 2 m thick.
The temperature of the lava, about 1,500 kelvins, is similar to that of the hottest volcanoes on Earth.
Go over the bridge, which runs over the moving lava passage then up to the altar.
The Kaua'i cave wolf spider and Kaua'i cave isopod are small, blind creatures adapted to life in moist lava tubes and adjacent crevices.
She tried her hand at making a lava lamp as her arts and crafts project which proved very successful.
Only a lava lamp illuminated my cramped, dark apartment, its red-tinted light bouncing off the red of the walls.
The unusual composition of the lava is reflected in the chemistry of the water coming through the hydrothermal vents.
My favorite part of the room was the corner table where a lava lamp bubbled a soothing purple liquid.
An Icelandic horse, capable of maintaining significant speed over lava fields and sheet ice, couldn't stay upright on asphalt.
In fact, the heat alone that incandesces from the lava is enough to cause surrounding objects to burst into flames!
There's a place in the US wants to attract interest from investors by having a giant lava lamp in the middle of the town.
Her mouth dropped open when she saw her lava lamp broken on the floor and a mirror had been smashed that was near the window.
Three pillow lava sites yielded data with westerly declinations and moderately inclined positive inclinations.
These lizards rely on rock crevices for cover from predators and harsh climate and these crevices are found only in boulder fields or lava flows.
These are interpreted to be lava tube conduits feeding the toe of the lava field.
Here the rock formed when lava flowed into a freshwater lagoon and quickly altered into spilite basalt.
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Jaben hurled the annulus into the lava, where it disappeared in a burst of lambent flame.
If, after the lava has cooled and set, the vesicles are filled with minerals, they are known as amygdales.
From deep crevices we could feel the heat where lava had not as yet cooled from the last flow.
From here, millions of years ago, volcanic eruptions spilled lava over the land.
Much of the town is in flames as lava from a volcano began falling down on Thursday.
This landslide material was then embayed by lava when the central caldera was flooded.
Lightening crashed, thunder rolled, ash and molten lava spumed from the mountains.
Back then, the hot ash, lava and ensuing mud flows killed more than a thousand people.
Other variants include feldspar-pyroxene-phyric lava and, rarely, aphyric lava.
Generally, newly erupted lava domes grow in an endogenous regime of growth that represents a thermo-mechanical continuum.
Located at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula, Cheju has been shaped by volcanic lava.
The tuffs are associated with subordinate sandstones and siltstones and minor lava.
The sun was setting beyond dark cumulous clouds which took on the appearance of volcanoes edged with lava.
This can explain where the information came from that produces living organisms in hot lava coming from a volcano.
Rising magma continues to build a lava dome in the crater of Mount St. Helens.
In the last several days, the roughly 1,000-foot-tall lava dome has risen by about 150 feet.
At Mount St. Helens, a lava dome continues to grow inside the volcano's horseshoe-shaped crater.
Geologists said the lava dome inside the volcano is now deforming, or growing, by tens, maybe hundreds, of feet.
About nine years ago, I visited that particular volcano, actually flew on a helicopter right to that lava dome at the center of that crater.
Thermal and textural anomalies seen on the surface of the lava domes change markedly during the restive state prior to larger eruptions.
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Several earlier lava domes formed after May 18, 1980 had been removed by explosive eruptions.
However, current field analyses of the flow structures suggest the outcrops are individual lava domes.
Its 2,000-foot height and nearly 2-cubic kilometer volume make it one of the largest lava domes in the world.
Slowly rising lava domes may grow for months or for several years in the aftermath of explosive eruptions.
The lower hills at left and at right are lava domes belonging to the Amiata complex.
Experts watching a recent spike in volcanic activity say a lava dome in the mountain's crater is growing.
The Pitons are the remnants of two lava domes that formed about 200-300 thousand years ago.
Many lava domes grow by internal intrusion of lava that causes swelling and oversteepening of the dome.
The eruption has been characterized by lava dome extrusion, dome-collapse pyroclastic flows and explosive activity.
The lava flow managed to spill over the cooled igneous rock but what little did was diverted away from the town.
We infer that this fluting represents a lithological unit, perhaps a lava flow, within the flanks of the edifice.
Sporadic explosions, ashfall, and an erupting lava flow are clear signs that the volcano is not yet finished.
Geologists and geophysicists aim to accurately constrain the architecture and facies variations at the lava flow scale.
The lava flow sequences exposed along the main barrancos do not display any gaps in the volcanic activity.
The largest lava flow on peninsular India spreads over about 5 million square kilometers, covering much of western, central, and southern India.
During the next three years, four inclined shafts were sunk along the strike of the lava flow to develop the lode.
The current lava flows are arms of the larger lava flow that erupted earlier this year.
Should the wall of the lava lake be breached, lava escapes and moves down the side of the volcano as a lava flow.
The lava flow spreads 25 miles north to south, and nine miles east to west.
Steve poked his head out the window and saw that a volcano had erupted and a hot lava flow was headed right towards the hotel!
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It did not threaten the local population because the lava flow descended into the Virunga national park.
I know it's a proper album, because my favourite songs keep shifting and changing and rising and falling, like wax in a lava lamp.
Her persistence led to a conviction and the recovery of a lava lamp and money box among the stolen goods.
I also own a lava lamp, or at least a vial of orange goo left behind by my landlord who has an unnervingly 70s view of home design.
Ariana squinted as she tried to make out the figure in the pale red light of the lava lamp.
It's composed of several screens with fluid colour rays changing in the way a lava lamp does.
They say necessity is the mother of invention, but if that old adage was true, why do we have the harmonica or the lava lamp?
I buy myself a lava lamp, listen to some Led Zeppelin and play a game of Pong.
The vertical change in architecture can be related to the evolution of the lava field.
Hot tubs of fiery lava and brain-eating zombies are new additions to the neighbourhood.
I felt my heart plummet to the earth's core and sink into the scorching ball of fiery lava with an ominous plonking noise.
Flying into Guatemala City before dawn, I saw a volcano on fire, glowing lava streaming down its cone, reddening the darkness.
Schools of grunts, coneys and tangs marked the entrance to the grotto, an ancient lava flow that cooled to a black tortured cavity.
You could have frozen lava with the glares the pit bosses were shooting him.
Next, get some lava rocks like you use in gas grill, wash them thoroughly and fill the container at least half full with them.
Its lava streams and agricultural fields are made from tiles fired at the museum and from bricks fired by local brickyards.
Like all the seafloor, they are created at midocean ridges, where two plates diverge and hot lava wells up from the underlying mantle.
As the lava solidified and cooled, it contracted, but the surface layers, exposed to the air, cooled faster than the deeper layers.
In addition, a number of intrusive centres, lava flows and dykes crop out in the NW corner of the island.
The molten lava in contact with the air cools quickly to form a skin over the flow.
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Their military style followed that of the Mongols, and formations like the lava passed into the Russian army via the Cossacks.
The remaining magma as lava domes and coulees was extruded with some associated subplinian or vulcanian explosive activity.
The bulk of the T2 magma is represented by the lava domes and coulees, which are the most evolved.
The quakes have occurred at depths less than one mile below the lava dome within the mountain's crater.
The volcano is heaping up a new lava dome in its crater, perhaps even rebuilding itself to a pre-1980 shape.
Does it literally transform your crib into the subzero lava lounge you always wanted it to be?
It is as if the lava from an erupting volcano had hardened into a crust just before it engulfed the neighborhood.
Several Cytherean impact craters display impact-induced lava flows, fractures and tectonics related to high-temperature environment.
After a pleasant preamble by a stream, a strenuous uphill section over rough lava flows brings you to the South Crater.
It's a tiny blob of lava that previously housed a small community, making a precarious living from fishing, on its rocky slopes.
Many fires started when lava ignited gasoline stored in buildings and garages in this eastern Congo town.
Rocky outcrops of basalt lava dot the landscape, which climbs gently from 1,200 feet to peaks nearly 5,000 feet high.
A geyser of lava spouted between them and Seth attacked, charging through the lava like it was water, an unstoppable locomotive of power.
When a lava lamp is turned on, an ordinary 40-watt bulb illuminates and warms the contents of the glass globe.
Erosion of old lava dome complexes has resulted in deep valleys that dissect pyroclastic and volcanoclastic fans.
In practice pyroclastic and volcaniclastic rocks include all the products of extrusive volcanic activity except lava flows.
Flood basalt eruptions involve the effusion of gigantic volumes of low-viscosity lava that spread out over huge areas.
These landslides were embayed by the lava that flooded the central caldera floor.
As soon as the lava is erupted at the surface, its properties will begin to change as a function of distance-time because of cooling.
After another couple of seconds, the feeling of being enclosed in a small space eased up and I noticed my lava lamp on my shelf, forming their comforting shapes.
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Suppose that the mountain erupts, leaving lava around the countryside.
So he turned to craftsmen living at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius who had pioneered a technique for working with lava stone.
To get from the police post to the crater you descend the declivitous wall of the old volcano, with its layers of hardened lava at the top and scree at the bottom.
This second album erupts like a geyser of molten lava from your speakers.
The shady lava lamp in the corner of the room supplied a dismal crimson light, the bubbly pink shimmers on the wall fell onto his flaccid, ageless, sweaty body.
Beneath them they saw delicate traceries of red and realized that only inches below their feet the molten lava of Hawaii ran in its broken arteries.
Everyone else gets going out of the way of the lava bombs and lava flows.
Here, olivine grains or anhedral crystals weather out of basaltic lava.
A lava spout spewed from the relics and threw the androids back.
On the western side of the mesa, black hornblende xenocrysts several centimeters in size are also found in a scoriaceous, agglomeratic portion of the lava flow.
Voluminous quantities of Late Ordovician to Wenlockian felsic pyroclastics and lava flows record the extensive volcanism associated with the collision and deformation.
Underneath, however, lies the permanently molten lava of Scottish memory and its sense of English repression.
Anne Barry, placed statuesquely on a moving platform, became a living geological formation as video footage of oceans and flowing lava were projected onto her enormous dress.
A cluster of seven lava domes found in the eastern part of Alpha Regio.
It stands to reason that, if long intervals of time had elapsed between the supposedly-episodic lava flows, weathered horizons, and fossil soils should be common.
The road continues 35 miles northwest past cinder cones and lava beds.
The guided Sicilian Volcano Hike will have you trogging up and around Etna for a couple of days, exploring craters and eerie lava fields, then cresting the summit.
Max, that map behind you looks like a lava lamp, for Pete's sake.
Below water this has cooled and solidified into a reef of billowing pillow lava that splurges across the sand, leaving deep undercuts, caves and arches.
Volcanoes spewed lava and ash, ocean floors were thrust upward, sand and rock and shale settled into slurry.
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Long columnar jointing through the dome suggests that a large volume of lava was extruded at one time and would have cooled more slowly inside than at the surface.
Studies of layering in individual lava flows suggest that rising volatiles may effect mass transfer of complexed ions during differentiation in magma chambers.
As the lava flows onwards, this skin is left behind as a lava tunnel.
Geological Survey crews also observed a shift in the crater floor and on part of the 1,000-foot lava dome that essentially serves as a plug for magma, he said.
In another clip, an angel made from what appears to be molten lava crawls out of the earth.
And though he'd heard that reaching the 12500-foot summit would be an ordeal, he wasn't prepared for the scorching lava bombs that Erebus hurled at him.
You'll witness the same panoramas of life that Darwin once did as you trek through blue-footed booby colonies and watch huge tortoises roam a raw lava landscape.
Now we left Mankind behind and raced back to a time when the earth cracked open and molten lava welled out, at the end of the distant Mesozoic Age.
Actually, the present lava dome at Mount St Helens is the third dome to form since the 1980 eruption, the previous two having been blasted away by the subsequent eruptions.
And it all depends on what's happening under the volcano in the magma body under the lava dome, whether this system will continue to repressurize or not.
Then, Alexis plucked up her courage and the volcano lava of gamophobia oozed out, and explained to him amid tears and heavings how she felt about marriage.
It is a narrow fissure vein cutting an ophitic lava flow and is typical of many of the noncommercial mineralized veins in the general area of Keweenaw Point.
There is a rumor that you can watch fire and water forever, but when it comes to exploding lava fountains, it is sempiternity multiplied to infinity.
Icicles, stalactites, stalagmites, lava tubes, and some crystals may be considered cylindrical, but the rest of the nonbiotic Universe has other shapes.
Rainier is a composite volcano built of lava and fragmented rock and while volcanologists say it's unlikely to erupt again in the near future, they always add a small corollary.
During the night of 16-17 July, the sixteenth episode of lava fountaining occurred at the SE Crater, accompanied by the emission of a minor lava flow.
The three conical mounds are, apparently, the remains of a volcanic lava flow that, millions of years ago, intruded into the underground sandstone.
This was followed, between 9 May and 13 July, by 15 episodes of lava fountaining, which were essentially a repetition of those of the preceding year.
In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate.
An extension of an old lava flow that submerged the surrounding beach, the wall begins at 5ft, three yards from the island's shore, and drops to a maximum depth of 65 ft.
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The segregation vesicles are interpreted to represent solidified interstitial melts, which migrated into gas bubbles prior to lava solidification.
The last lava flow from the volcano were recorded in 1007 and the mountain contains many tunnels, pillars and other unusual features that formed as the molten basalt cooled.
Then the outside of the lava freezes to form a glassy, vesicle-free skin which inflates like a balloon until the surface is ruptured and a new pillow begins to form.
Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics and consist of thin lava flows and interbedded sedimentary rocks.
Ash layers are generally interleaved with beds of lava and sediment, and so a rock that contains such a layer was formed at approximately the time of the ash deposition.
For example, at Iceland's Askja Caldera volcano, which has been active during the past 5,000 years, there is a small crater lake that was created by a 1834 lava flow.
The fault structure was veneered by lava which was produced by the peripheral magma reservoirs and flowed down the scarp and into the lower central caldera.
Two bridges connect the town to the other side. The residents have only minutes to get across those bridges to escape potential lava flows, lahars, and mudslides.
The lava dome is made of dacite, a fine-grained volcanic rock that contains a sprinkling of larger, visible crystals, like chopped fruit in a cake.
By the time you step out on the lanai, which overlooks the pool and a secluded bay guarded by berms of lava rock, you've almost forgotten you're in Hawaii.
The peninsula of Methana is made of lava domes and lava flows.
Each lava unit was sampled, usually as seven independent cores, drilled over several metres of outcrop using a portable motor and oriented by sun and magnetic compasses.
If water is locked in hydrous minerals in the Venusian crust, it is perhaps possible that any re-release of water could occur locally during volcanism and lava flow activity.
An aircraft will soon fly over the lava dome to test for the presence of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, signs that magma might be building up.
Bombs are pieces of molten lava that are thrown out of the volcano.
The tuffs and lava were derived from a nearby andesitic volcanic centre.
The only lighting in the room was from our lava lamp, which cast eerie green and blue shadows that made the icy look on my best friend's face appear even more foreboding.
So the beanbag's ready, the lava lamp's warming up and the joss-sticks are lit, when gradually the realisation dawns that something's not quite right.
In Tokaj-Hegyalja the soils are volcanic with a topsoil of decayed lava.
No longer would they have crazy adventures like campus-wide paintball and lava matches.
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Lava tubes are formed when a flow of relatively fluid lava cools on the upper surface sufficiently to form a crust.
Three extinct species appear to be closely related to the Manx shearwater, the lava shearwater, the dune shearwater and Scarlett's shearwater.
Some volcanoes have rugged peaks formed by lava domes rather than a summit crater while others have landscape features such as massive plateaus.
Volcanic fissure vents are flat, linear fractures through which lava emerges.
The resulting structures after solidification and cooling are also sometimes described as lava.
Explosive eruptions produce a mixture of volcanic ash and other fragments called tephra, rather than lava flows.
The word lava comes from Italian, and is probably derived from the Latin word labes which means a fall or slide.
Most silicic lava flows are extremely viscous, and typically fragment as they extrude, producing blocky autobreccias.
If the lava within the crater has been at such a temperature that solidification has commenced, crystals are usually present.
The Cheviot Hills, in the northwest of the county, consist mainly of resistant Devonian granite and andesite lava.
Xenoliths of dunite, peridotite and spinel lherzolite in basaltic lava flows are one example.
Rounded, yellow, weathered peridotite xenolith in a nephelinite lava flow at Kaiserstuhl, SW Germany.
The absence of slagginess and vesicularity in the considerable thickness exposed is also against its being a lava.
They are built from a different kind of lava, much gummier than that of the free-flowing tholeiitic basalt.
Cinder cone volcanoes arise from solid lava fragments thrown out to form a cinder pile.
It is a gigantic classic shield volcano, and the broad landscape of its summit is an alpine desert composed of cinder cones on a lava plateau.
Sometimes known as Lava Geese, nenes are the only waterfowl adapted for life on lava flows and have mostly lost the webbing between their toes.
Communal distrust, in India, is lava always simmering beneath the skin.
But now the sulfurous gas and molten lava were trapped inside, making likely a second eruption.
The grand structures are made of thatched grass and local lava stones.
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We unplugged the toaster, the coffee maker, the VCRs, even the lava lamps in the kids' rooms,'' he said.
The impact destroyed the smaller body, vaporizing huge amounts of rock and flinging massive plumes of hot lava into space.
On Earth, lava coils can be found on the Big Island of Hawaii, mainly on the surface of ropey pahoehoe lava flows.
The model suggests that the moon's crust may be thicker there or the lava that emerges may be pastier.
Somehow, the cable snagged a huge pillow lava in a nook between two bulbous lobes and wrenched it up from the seafloor.
Pillow lava flows occur in underwater vents and look like rolling globs of lava.
Lavarand used a technique of running a hash function against images from a number of lava lamps.
Assisted by geologist Anne Heche, Jones has to deal with shooting fireballs and lava destroying all in its wake.
Furry fabrics, flokati rugs and lava lamps along with backless benches instead of sofas adorn sitting rooms.
Mixed-conifer woodlands cover much of the lava flows at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico.
The top five most commonly hoarded items are NOW CDs, bread makers, Rubix Cubes, lava lamps and the Walkman.
This rejuvenation-stage or post-erosional volcanism produces lava even more alkalic than late-stage volcanism.
It's not like you wouldn't want to jump over those lava fountains, amirite?
The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and cindery deluges.
The northern central peaks, such as Great Rigg, were produced by considerable lava flows.
The centre of the range comprises a Devonian granite outcrop surrounded by Silurian and Devonian andesite lava flows on each side.
Glowing hot rivers of lava bisect the landscape, leading to a stunning lavafall.
David and Brunhes first observed magnetizations in lava flows that were roughly opposed to that of the present earth's magnetic field.
While the Pacific states are the most volcanically active areas, extinct volcanoes and lava flows are found throughout most of the West.
The Faroe Islands are dominated by tholeiitic basalt lava, which was part of the great Thulean Plateau during the Paleogene period.
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In the east of the city, in Craigie and Broughty Ferry, the bedrock geology is of extrusive rocks, including mafic lava and tuff.
Other volcanic lakes are created when either rivers or streams are dammed by lava flows or volcanic lahars.
The basin within which Malheur Lake, Oregon was created when a lava flow dammed the Malheur River.
The island's interior, the Highlands of Iceland, is a cold and uninhabitable combination of sand, mountains, and lava fields.
Other examples of these can be seen in the lava fields of Volcanoes National Park to mark several hikes.
Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous rock and forms lava flows, lava sheets and lava plateaus.
When magma reaches the surface from beneath water or air, it is called lava.
Summa crusta of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens.
These foreign bodies are picked up as magma or lava flows, and are incorporated, later to cool in the matrix.
Like stratovolcanoes, they can produce violent, explosive eruptions, but their lava generally does not flow far from the originating vent.
Cryptodomes are formed when viscous lava is forced upward causing the surface to bulge.
Cinders and ash pile on top of each other, lava flows on top of the ash, where it cools and hardens, and then the process repeats.
They are made up of flat lava which flows at the top of extensive pillow lavas and palagonite.
In the area that is now India, massive lava beds called the Deccan Traps were erupted in the very late Cretaceous and early Paleocene.
Volcanic activity later resumed, producing scoria cones and lava flows atop the older eroded shield.
If glacial deposits were formed on Mauna Loa, they have long since been buried by younger lava flows.
Magma that reaches the surface to become lava cools rapidly, resulting in rocks with small crystals such as basalt.
In 2014, scientists found 70 lava flows which formed on the Moon in the last 100 million years.
Minor eruptions are frequent and lava flow has been observed in recent years.

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