The fumarole represented no difficulties to the engineer. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Hence the name Solfatara for the fumarole described in Chapter IX. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The room where volcanoes filled the ashtrays with their fine cinders, and the keyhole itself was a fumarole. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
The last eruption was observed in the 1970's, but some fumarole activity still occurs in one of the craters. From Wordnik.com. [Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica] Reference
So he climbed the fumarole — not without difficulty, but certainly without ever being in real danger of falling. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Yet so filled with fire and power that she reminded her grandmother of a house built upon a stoppered-up fumarole. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Theoderos Tesfai, an Eritrean geochemist, collects a sample of fumarolic gas at As'ela, a fumarole on Alid's north flank. From Wordnik.com. [alidphotos.html] Reference
A dragon raced into the arena, then stopped in the middle of the field to gape its jaws and give a hiss like an erupting fumarole. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Sandra had us scramble back to the top for another try though the fumarole passage, but again, when we got into the thick of it, we were practically overcome. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1] Reference
There is also a fumarole known as Valley of Desolation (or Grand Soufriere), with fumaroles, hot springs, mud pots, sulfur vents and the Boiling Lake, which is the world's second largest of its kind. From Wordnik.com. [Morne Trois Pitons, Dominica] Reference
Above about 4,600 m, very few plants are able to survive the severe conditions, although specimens of Helichrysum newii have been recorded as high as 5,760 m (close to a fumarole), and mosses and lichens are found right up to the summit. From Wordnik.com. [Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania] Reference
Anyone less motivated would not have found the ancient fumarole, its volcanic vapors long since spent, for it lay behind a seemingly uninterrupted wall of basalt formed in tall columnar crystals; nose down, Publius Vagiennius sniffed his way around an optical illusion and found a huge chimney. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Because all of this occurred on the north face of the rugged volcanic outcrop — actually the eroded remnant of the lava plug, for the outer mountain itself had disappeared aeons before — the shelf was permanently wet from seepage, some of which dripped over the rim of the fumarole, but most of which ran down the rocks on the outside at the point where the shelf sloped to form a fissure. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
A fumarole near the summit of Damavand, emitting sulfur. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to PPD and Microsoft to Deliver Innovative REMS Solution Based on Microsoft Technologies] Reference
This is an especially large fumarole on the inner wall of the central crater. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Steam rises from a large fumarole on the north flank of Mount Redoubt in January. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The temperature of the vapor just within the fumarole is 184°, water boiling beside it at 189°. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
A low circular retaining wall is then built around the fumarole and topped with branches and grasses. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
Jim Laidler collects samples for later laboratory analysis from a steaming-hot fumarole at Lassen National Park in Northern California. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
By Saturday, they had confirmed the area was a fumarole, an opening in the earth that emits gases and steam, and that it had doubled overnight. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
The subsoil in Tuscany is relatively rich in mineral resources, with iron ore, copper, mercury and lignite mines, the famous soffioni (fumarole) at. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
By Saturday, they had confirmed the area was a fumarole, an opening in the earth that emits gases and steam, that was increasing in size at an alarming rate. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
Together with the steam, the smell of foul eggs (caused by sulphur) and because it's not the only fumarole in the crater, a view in the crater is like looking in hell's kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
After I had breakfasted with Montgomery, he took me across the island to see the fumarole and the source of the hot spring into whose scalding waters I had blundered on the previous day. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
More than that, it's evidence that bolsters their hypothesis that Gusev Crater is a region that eons ago featured hot springs or volcanic fumarole activity, the kind of place where life might have formed. From Wordnik.com. [Planetary Society Daily Almanac] Reference
Preheat a giant turtle shell over a fumarole. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives] Reference
Note the fumarole to the lower left of the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Tongariro National Park, New Zealand] Reference
"One winter a guy died by falling into a fumarole (a vapor hole in or near a volcano) that was surrounded by snow. From Wordnik.com. [Merced Sun-Star: front] Reference
"Beside the fumarole," said Ivor. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
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