Phreatic

//fɹiˈæt.ɪk//

Synonyms for "phreatic"

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Translations

17 translations across 12 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • freàtic adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 潜水蒸气喷发 adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)

Finnish

3 entries
  • freaattinen adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)
  • pohjaveden adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)
  • pohjavesi adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)

French

2 entries
  • phréatique adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)
  • éruption phréatique adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)

German

2 entries
  • phreatisch adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)
  • phreatische Explosion adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)

Italian

1 entries
  • freatico adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 水蒸気爆発 adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)

Korean

1 entries
  • 수증기 분화 adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • freático adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)

Romanian

1 entries
  • freatic adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)

Russian

1 entries
  • фреатический взрыв adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)

Spanish

2 entries
  • erupción freática adj (Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material)
  • freático adj (Of, or pertaining to ground water)

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1979 [McGraw-Hill], Jacob Bear, Hydraulics of Groundwater, 2007, Dover, page 76, Both ϕ and q vary from point to point within a phreatic aquifer.

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1981, Peter W. Lipman, James G. Moore, Donald A. Swanson, Bulging of the North Flank Before the May 18 Eruption—Geodetic Data, Peter W. Lipman, Donal R. Mullineaux (editors), The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens, Washington, U.S. Geological Survey, page 143, These results contributed to assessments by USGS personnel in late April and early May that Mount St. Helens remained highly dangerous despite the seemingly mild small-scale phreatic eruptions that were then the most conspicuous activity.

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Gradually, infiltrating waters gather in underground rivers or phreatic conduits well integrated in the karst drainage system, which leads the underground waters to the outlets.

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“Phreatic” (or steam-blast) eruptions are driven by explosive expanding steam resulting from cold ground or surface water coming into contact with hot rock or magma. The distinguishing feature of phreatic explosions is that they only blast out fragments of preexisting solid rock from the volcanic conduit; no new magma is erupted.

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