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Meanings of tephra in anglès

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Particles that came out of a volcanic vent or from an impact.

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        Examples for "ejecta"
        Examples for "ejecta"
        1
        Not the meteorite itself, but ejecta: shrapnel hurled out from the impact site.
        Seveneves
        2
        Calderas marched across his view, the terrain tortured and broken with faults and ejecta.
        Genellan: planetfall
        3
        This ejecta would thrust the asteroid in the opposite direction.
        News.com.au
        4
        An ejecta of lava spew shot back and hit the underside of the lander.
        Earth Afire
        5
        New island chains, frequently arc shaped, had been created by ejecta and by volcanic activity.
        Seveneves
        Usage of tephra in anglès
        1
        This is already an island building up around the vent as the volcanic tephra piles up.
        Wired
        2
        While the tephra has gradually washed away over the years, the hard lava core has proved far more resilient.
        100 Places You Will Never Visit
        3
        They are constructed of loose piles of volcanic debris (tephra) and lava flows on relatively steep slopes.
        Wired
        4
        It consisted of roughly two-thirds tephra (rock fragments thrown up during an eruption) and one-third rapidly cooling lava.
        100 Places You Will Never Visit
        5
        Vigorous eruptions of steam and tephra were accompanied by an enhancement of the normal fine-weather potential gradient, and lightning was often observed.
        Pubmed
        6
        Tephra fall is minor or insignificant.
        Wired
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for tephra
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        Tephra through the time