Sentence examples for fire fountains from inspiring English sources

"And there are fire fountains".

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

Over the next few days, fire fountains began spewing hot magma as high as 300 feet into sky; lava flowed in molten rivers 60 feet thick.

By means, and regarding legalities, that we needn't go into here, I acquired serious mortar tubes, cakes, mines, rockets, Roman candles, fire fountains, and flares.

In the following days, fire fountains jetted from a dozen vents on the volcano, reaching as high as 100 meters, according to the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland.

It was the first to swing close to an asteroid; the first to orbit one of the outer planets; the first to document fire fountains erupting from the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io; and the first to fly through a plume from Io, a lurid yellow-orange sphere with an estimated three hundred volcanoes erupting at any given time.

Unlike huge volcanic blasts including the one at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, the eruption in southern Iceland began slowly about a month ago, with a series of fissures on the eastern side of the volcano and what volcanologists call fire fountaining, the spewing of hot magma through vents.

Fire fountaining produced eruptive columns of lapilli and ash, which extended from the SE flank down to Catania.

Following lava flow effusion and fire fountaining from fissures along Etna's NE and S flanks, after 5 November the eruption continued exclusively on the S flanks with continuous explosive activity and lava flows of relatively un-degassed, volatile-rich magma (Andronico et al. 2005).

Eruptive styles from the Auckland Volcanic Field range from episodes of Strombolian and/or Hawaiian fire fountaining commonly accompanied by phreatomagmatic episodes with a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) between 0 and 2. Principle hazards include tephra falls, lava flows, ballistics, and pyroclastic density currents (Sandri et al. 2012).

When Lorraine Field stood and watched a bright red fire fountain shooting violently out from the Nyamuragira volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she said the noise and the heat of the eruption were "like an assault on her senses".