Sentence examples for eruptive from inspiring English sources

Like "Offertorium," Ms. Gubaidulina's first violin concerto, "In Tempus Praesens" unfolds in a continuous stream just over a half-hour long, permeated with somber silences and prone to unpredictable shifts from fragility to eruptive violence without warning.

In contrast to simple shield and stratovolcanoes, many volcanoes change their eruptive habits both in eruption type and in the location of their vents—over time.

Toba, a volcano in Sumatra, had exploded with the sort of eruptive force that convulses the planet only once every few million years.

The present structure of the mountain is the result of the activity of at least two main eruptive centres.

Even more important were his pioneering studies on the relationship between a region's geography and its flora and fauna, and, above all, the conclusions he drew from his study of the Andean volcanoes concerning the role played by eruptive forces and metamorphosis in the history and ongoing development of the Earth's crust.

In most cases, they occur because of changes either in eruptive habit or in location of the principal vent area.

After 1631 there was a change in the eruptive character of the volcano, and activity became continuous.

Two stages could be observed: quiescent and eruptive.

They also collected samples of orange and black glass indicative of ancient volcanic "fire fountains" (eruptive gouts of lava) on the Moon.

Established in 1924, it unfolds a geologic story of the Earth's eruptive and erosional forces.

They usually occur in or near the contact of eruptive rocks with schists or slates.