Sentence examples for volcanic bombs from inspiring English sources

Volcanic bombs, in contrast, are generally incandescent and soft during their flight.

Coatings form preferentially on flow surfaces with glassy outer layers, such as spatter ramparts, volcanic bombs, and dense pahoehoe breakouts, due to glass strain weakening during cooling.

It was not the lava, noxious gases, flame, smoke or volcanic bombs that destroyed those unfortunate thousands; it was the terrible power of water.

Volcanic ejecta (including volcanic bombs) were erupted, resulting in the death of a skier.

Volcanic bombs were not found over 1 km away from the erupted craters in the photographs.

These "volcanic bombs" are shaped while flying and consequently take quite aerodynamic forms.

It is noteworthy that these compositions are also close to those reported for lava and volcanic bomb collected in 1946 and 1956, respectively (Oba et al. 1980).

A volcanic bomb covered with salts of a white color (hereafter referred to as "white salt") was found on the eastern flank, ~ 300 m from the vent, on December 27 , 2014 after the occurrence of Strombolian activities (Fig. 1i).

In February 2011, the style of eruption of this volcano has switched from sub-Plinian to Vulcanian, during which a 400-kg volcanic bomb was ejected as far as 3.2 km from the vent.

Deposits near the source vent consist of large volcanic blocks and bombs, with so-called "bread-crust bombs" being especially common.

Bomb, in volcanism, unconsolidated volcanic material that has a diameter greater than 64 mm (2.5 inches) and forms from clots of wholly or partly molten lava ejected during a volcanic eruption, partly solidifying during flight.