The sky would have darkened with sheer volume of ash, the grapes would have withered upon the vine; misfortune would have fallen with the inexorability of volcanic tephra upon rich and poor alike.
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Tephra
//ˈtɛ.fɹə//
Synonyms for "tephra"
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7 translations across 5 languages.
Danish
1 entries- tefra noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- téphra noun (Translations)
German
3 entries- Pyroklastika noun (Translations)
- pyroklastische Ablagerung noun (Translations)
- pyroklastisches Sediment noun (Translations)
Icelandic
1 entries- gjóska noun (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- тефра noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Over a five-year research period, RESET is correlating tephras from their volcanic sources to where they fell in deep ocean and lake sediments, and even further into important archaeological sites in Europe, western Asia and North Africa.
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Tephra could encourage phytoplankton blooms that could potentially sequester huge amounts of carbon dioxide
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