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What is a fumarole?

What is a fumarole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity.
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We're heading to Fumarole Beach in the north of the island, home to one of Ischia's hottest thermal springs.
These areas are known as hydrothermal regions, fumarole fields, or solfatara fields.
This fumarole is only a bomb or rounded mass of enormous size, four or five metres in diameter.
The most typical signs of an impending eruption are shallow earthquakes, ground deformation, increased volcanic gas release, increased fumarole vigour and temperatures, and minor landslides and rockfalls.
He survived only by lying next to a thermal fumarole, scalding one side of himself while freezing the other.
A fairly constant fumarole can be seen emanating from the crater.

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