What is "fumaroles"

Usage examples of "fumaroles".

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.

What did they do when they found some half-blinded creature, or a pile of clothes beside one of the fumaroles whose little clouds of steam rose here and there in the park?

Beyond the lake, Bond came on the first of the fumaroles, a sulphurous, bubbling pool of mud that constantly shuddered and spouted up little fountains.

Bond had had to detour round steaming, cracks in the ground and the quaking mud of fumaroles, identified by a warning circle of white-painted stones.

Again the moon blazed down and there was total silence except for the distant burping and bubbling of the fumaroles and the occasional sinister chuckle of a gecko from the shrubbery.

By his best calculation he had come twenty miles - through heat and thirst, across lakes of dust and ancient seas of ash, down spiraling fumaroles and over fields of clinking metallic lava.

Khyntor at last Valentine directed Asenhart to make his landfall not in the city proper, but across the river in the southern suburb of Hot Khyntor, where the geothermal wonders were, the geysers and fumaroles and simmering lakes.