adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a volcanic explosion (= one caused by a volcano )
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You could see where a volcanic explosion had blown the mountain peak away.
volcanic rock
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The fossils are sandwiched between two layers of volcanic rock.
volcanic
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More than 3,500 years ago, the volcanic island of Thera erupted.
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The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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In this case, it is the formation of the rock through volcanic activity , which drives off any argon formerly present.
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Solids can release gases back into the atmosphere when heated and pressed by volcanic activity .
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This heating and crushing was due to nearby igneous volcanic activity about 400 million years ago.
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Where there is evidence for volcanic activity on the Moon, it generally seems to be associated with impact events.
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While forests were being buried there was volcanic activity .
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Anaxagoras planned to demand some solid data on the volcanic activity which kept shaking Mount Aetna.
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Fairly consistent patterns are evident in the location of the volcanic activity with respect to the fringing trench.
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There are five major types of volcanic activity .
arc
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Volcanicity and magma emplacement, largely in the form of large granite intrusions, characterize the volcanic arc .
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Between the outer-arc ridge and the volcanic arc a forearc basin may be formed.
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A complicated pattern of basins and ridges hind the volcanic arc .
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Back-arc spreading may be initiated within the volcanic arc because the high heat flux from below weakens the lithosphere.
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This maintains a shallow angle of subduction beneath the outer arc but steepens below the main volcanic arc to about 60°.
ash
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The island became covered with vegetation, fossils of which are sometimes found in the volcanic ashes .
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The buried artifacts were found between layers of volcanic ash and other substances.
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Large areas of island are covered with thick deposits of black volcanic ash , known locally as picon.
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Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock, reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.
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The city was buried under several meters of volcanic ash , many of the inhabitants being asphyxiated in their houses.
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The finest fragments make volcanic ash and dust.
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It therefore follows that all sedimentary bodies, other than deep sea oozes and volcanic ash deposits, are likely to be diachronous.
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Over aeons, the undulating plains have been showered by volcanic ash blown westward from Ngorongoro, Lemagrut and other now-extinct volcanos.
eruption
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A word here in passing about what actually goes to make up a typical volcanic eruption cloud.
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It turned out that that impact was not limited to volcanic eruptions .
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Their campsites, graves, and houses had been buried and protected by a volcanic eruption .
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The Napa Valley, raised from the primordial sea, was formed by violent volcanic eruptions .
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The characteristics of the various types of volcanic eruption are considered in the general texts mentioned above.
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This time around, Dirk Pitt is nursing injuries sustained during a volcanic eruption .
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We're talking about the combined and simultaneous effect of a massive thermonuclear detonation, a volcanic eruption and an earthquake.
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One of the ingredients it requires is hydrogen, a gas that is produced in great quantities during volcanic eruptions .
island
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Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
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Just ahead lay the outlying volcanic islands of To Shima and Nii Shima, and the wind carried us slantwise between them.
material
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The shape and direction of the valleys have been influenced by the location of the more easily eroded volcanic material .
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Perlite: A volcanic material like vermiculite and with many of the same properties.
rock
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Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
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But it has endured because it was constructed of brick and volcanic rock between 1783 and 1792.
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Basalts are examples of basic volcanic rocks , while andesites are intermediate between basic and acid.
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Warped and folded Paleozoic strata and reddish Tertiary volcanic rocks are capped with dark Quaternary basalt flows.
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Thus the volcanic rocks formed are drastically different from their oceanic counterparts.
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These are frequently associated with volcanic rocks of oceanic type.
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The codename was chosen because rhyolite is a volcanic rock containing colourful pieces of quartz set in a mass of crystals.
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Fresh volcanic rocks are poor conductors of electricity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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volcanic ash
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a volcanic temper
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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El Golfo An unusual, vividly green lagoon, separated from the sea by a beach of black volcanic sand.
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Eventually granite intrusions are emplaced at high levels within the mountain mass and volcanic activity develops.
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For example, many early human artifacts, such as arrowheads, are made of obsidian, a volcanic glass.
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Natural catastrophes, such as volcanic eruptions, may result in sites being buried very rapidly.
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The Banda archipelago is volcanic and luxuriously tropical, perfect for snorkelling and diving.
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The shape and direction of the valleys have been influenced by the location of the more easily eroded volcanic material.
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While forests were being buried there was volcanic activity.