A major problem in reducing volcanic risk is that most explosive volcanoes have such long repose periods that people living nearby consider them extinct rather than dormant.
Dormant or extinct volcanoes dominate the central and eastern parts of the state.
Geysers are fragile phenomena and if conditions change, they can go dormant or extinct.
Since then, thermal anomalies (hot spots) and gas emissions (including hydrogen sulfide) have occurred especially on the summit plateau and indicate that Adams is dormant, not extinct.
Nevertheless the volcanic fissures at Craters of the Moon are considered to be dormant, not extinct, and are expected to erupt in less than a thousand years.
So much is embedded in this work, this constant battle between forces: the rich versus the poor, the employed versus the unemployed, the successful versus the failure, the talented versus the hack, the sober versus the drunk, the sane versus the senile, the straight versus the gay, the young versus the old, the sexually active versus the dormant (or extinct) and on and on.
In 1820 he asked George IV to allow the Banff peerage, which had become dormant or extinct when the 8th Lord Banff died, to continue by declaring his mother Baroness Banff, or granting him the title of Lord Banff, but the request was denied.
It's not an extinct volcano; it's a dormant volcano.
High above rise the vast cone and threatening black lava flows of a volcano that looks dormant rather than extinct.
Eventually it goes dormant, and eventually extinct.
