WordNet
n. the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material [syn: eruption]
Usage examples of "volcanic eruption".
If these brave men had been told that a volcanic eruption would destroy the land, that this land would be engulfed in the depths of the Pacific, they would have imperturbably replied,&mdash.
When water enters a gaseous state, its volume instantly mushrooms nearly a thousand times, creating the astronomical power needed to produce a volcanic eruption.
She had gone after the diamonds only to be beaten by the worst volcanic eruption in Africa in a decade.
There is no way of stopping a volcanic eruption, much less an explosion.
But if something as powerful and wild as a volcanic eruption can be called beautiful, why can’.
A volcanic eruption in Taupo, New Zealand, in the year 177 cooled the climate of the Mediterranean, half a world away, and dropped fine particles onto the Greenland ice cap.
Before the last volcanic eruption -- if Johnny's geologic observations were as accurate as they should be -- the valley had been the shores of a bay.