Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.
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Lahar
//ˈlɑhɑɹ//
Synonyms for "lahar"
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Translations
19 translations across 18 languages.
Bishnupriya Manipuri
1 entries- লহর noun (volcanic mudflow)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 火山泥流 noun (volcanic mudflow)
Danish
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Dutch
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Finnish
2 entries- lahari noun (volcanic mudflow)
- vulkaaninen mutavyöry noun (volcanic mudflow)
French
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
German
1 entries- Lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Greek
1 entries- λαχάρ noun (volcanic mudflow)
Indonesian
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Italian
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Japanese
1 entries- ラハール noun (volcanic mudflow)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦭꦲꦂ noun (volcanic mudflow)
Malay
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Polish
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Portuguese
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Russian
1 entries- лаха́р noun (volcanic mudflow)
Slovak
1 entries- lahár noun (volcanic mudflow)
Spanish
1 entries- lahar noun (volcanic mudflow)
Sample sentences
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Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.
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A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.
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