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Definitions of fumarole in various dictionaries:
A hole in a volcanic area from which hot smoke and gases escape.
noun - a hole from which volcanic vapors issue
FUMAROLE - 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 volc...
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| (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks barefoot along the shore in Antarctica.) Surprisingly, you can even walk barefoot in some Antarctic water, like here on volcanic Deception Island at this type of vent in the earth, from the Latin for "smoke" |
| From the Latin for "smoke chamber", it's a vent or hole in the ground that emits volcanic gases |
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| A hole in a volcanic area from which hot smoke and gases escape. |
| an opening in or near a volcano, through which hot sulphurous gases emerge. |
| An opening in or near a volcano, through which hot sulphurous gases emerge. |
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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, and hydrogen sulfide. The steam forms when superheated water condenses as its pressure drops when it emerges from the ground. The name solfatara, from the Italian solfo, "sulfur" (via the Sicilian language compare to the volcano Solfatara), is given to fumaroles that emit sulfurous gases. * Fumaroles may occur along tiny cracks or long fissures, in chaotic clusters or fields, and on the surfaces of lava flows and of thick deposits of pyroclastic flows. A fumarole field is an area of thermal springs and gas vents where magma or hot igneous rocks at shallow depth release gases or interact with groundwater.Fumaroles may persist for decades or centuries if located above a persistent heat source; or they may disappear within weeks to months if they occ |