Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A volcanic area that gives off sulfurous gases and steam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An area of more or less corroded and disintegrated volcanic rock, over which sulphurous gases, steam, and other volcanic emanations escape through various orifices, frequently giving rise to what are known as mud-volcanoes, mud-cones, or salses; a region of dying or dormant volcanism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dr. Bishop testing magnetic properties of soil at the solfatara site inside Kilauea caldera, Hawaii.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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You can see Dr. Bishop collecting samples at the solfatara site inside Kilauea caldera, Hawaii, in the the photo to the right.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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Dr. Bishop collecting samples from the solfatara site inside Kilauea caldera, Hawaii.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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But after a few brittle steps he broke through a layer of burnt-yellow crust and fell into a solfatara, a cauldron of bubbling mud.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010
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But after a few brittle steps he broke through a layer of burnt-yellow crust and fell into a solfatara, a cauldron of bubbling mud.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010
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In the center of the depression are the Sulphur Springs, a geothermal field or solfatara with sulphurous fumaroles and hot springs surrounded by a variety of other volcanic features: explosion craters, lava flows and deposits of pumice and ash.
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There is wetland vegetation in marshes and beside lakes; and on the acid soil near sulphurous fumaroles there is a solfatara community.
Shiretoko, Japan 2008
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AGI - Naples, Sept. 19 - The miracle of San Gennaro's blood that liquefies happened again in the cathedral of Naples during the feast of the Patron Saint, which is the anniversary of the martyrdom which took place in 305 A.C. at the Pozzuoli solfatara.
San Gennaro: A New Miracle Argent 2006
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A flip-down visor was useful if you encountered any of the really dire conditions Cravat sometimes vouchsafed — acid hail, flocks of kamikaze hat pin bugs, even moderate amounts of fire and brimstone in the solfatara lands.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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Popocatepetl, is in the condition of a _solfatara_, sending out jets of steam and sulphurous acid gas.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
avivamagnolia commented on the word solfatara
~vent in a volcano through which sulfur-rich gases and steam escape, leaving bright yellow sulfur deposits
January 18, 2009
avivamagnolia commented on the word solfatara
~from the Italian solfo (sulphur)
January 18, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word solfatara
The Italian word for sulphur is zolfo, while solfo is archaic.
June 22, 2010