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A volcanic area or vent that yields only hot vapors and gases in part sulfurous and represents a late stage of volcanic activity.

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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.
  • 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...
  • Native sulphur deposits in the solfatara and sulphur extraction in the bottom of the green crater.
  • Hence we may conclude what must be the heat in this solfatara at the depth of thirty or forty fathoms.
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