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adj. - Of or relating to ground water.

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  • Adjective : a phreatic explosion
  • Now throw in singular events such as phreatic volcanic eruptions, which can measurably affect global temperatures for up to 10 years and you have a detection of...
  • No magmatic eruptions have occurred since the late Pleistocene, but large phreatic eruptions took place near Yellowstone Lake during the Holocene.
  • Mexico has hydraulic energy which has been affected by suspicious droughts coinciding with certain U.S. experiments related to hurricanes, and which in Mexico, as in Cuba,...
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