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Volcanic vent
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fumarole
Word definitions for fumarole in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fumarole \Fu"ma*role\, n. [It. fumaruola, fr. fumo smoke, L. fumus: cf. F. fumerolle, fumarolle.] A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ A fumarole (or fumerole - the word ultimately comes from the Latin fumus , "smoke") is an opening in a planet's crust , often in areas surrounding volcanoes , which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide , sulfur dioxide , hydrogen chloride ...
Usage examples of fumarole.
Daeman crawled closer, fingers and feet scrabbling on skulls, and looked at the tall heap of eggs from as close as he could get without lifting his head above the level of the fumarole crater rim.
He waited until the steam and vapors were thick as a smoke screen and slid down the side of the fumarole, dropping the last five feet.
Only the edge of the storm had touched the fumarole field before it had swerved, leaving them unscathed.
I asked as I watched a fumarole just upwind of where we trembled in a near-hover.
We went as quick as we might along the rolling road, among live forests and dead ones, smelling the stinks of distant fumaroles as though they had been the stinks of a body decaying, waking sadly in the mornings and walking the day through no happier, urgently going, driven by our own need to do whatever it was needed doing without any real hope that it would do any good at all.
Haynes had postulated that the dune seas of this world had tides and movements, exhalations and fumaroles that hinted at mysteries far beneath the surface.
When Jesse finished, the planetary ecologist stared at the chamber wall, his gaze distant, as if his imagination was roaming across the dunes to rich spice fields and worm sands, to gasping fumaroles and hidden tunnels beneath the desert, running like blue veins through a living planet.
I never suspected that sand whirlpools and fumaroles might be crucial links in the chain of spice distribution.
Two weeks later plumes of steam were seen issuing from fumaroles high atop Pelee.
Steam roiling up from the lake, the mud pots, the fumaroles, glowed in opalescent plumes.
All around the base of the city, and into its ugly flanks, and among its heaped debris, were fumaroles from which came plumes of smoke and red glarings that pulsed and shook.
Jets of burning gases, the flames weirdly hued in greens and purples, shot from scattered fumaroles and rents in the ground.
He suggests that, in the cases of blindness or amnesia, the victims presumably fall into one of the fumaroles by mistake.
Tiger said that this was just the time to see the famous geysers and fumaroles of the little spa.
The stink of sulphur was disgusting, and each bubbling, burping nest of volcanic fumaroles was more horrific than the last.