Volcanic

//vɒlˈkænɪk//

"Volcanic" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The surface of the earth rose due to the volcanic activity.

The volcanic eruption threatened the village.

Japan is made up of volcanic islands.

Volcanic ash brought aviation to a standstill.

Volcanic ash covered the city.

There's volcanic ash in the atmosphere.

Volcanic ash disrupted air travel.

Mount Etna has erupted, showering Sicily in volcanic rock.

More than 50 people died from the recent eruption. Volcanic rocks struck some victims in the head.

Although fatalities tend to be rare, many people have died as a result of volcanic eruptions during the last quarter century.

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volcanic heat

volcanic activity

Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea. That volcanism helped lead to the birth of the Atlantic Ocean while it also contributed to killing off as much as a quarter of all life on Earth during the event known as the end-Triassic mass extinction.

volcanic tufa

volcanic ash

Jo rose indignified, Vanessa following in her volcanic wake.

With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.

The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.

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