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Definition of 'lahar'Noun
( en-noun)
(geology) A volcanic mudflow.
* 1985 , Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology , page 204
- 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.
* 2000 , Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff & Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology? , page 138
- 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.
* 2006 , Andrew J. L. Harris et al.'', "Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala", ''in'' William Ingersoll Rose (ed.), ''Volcanic Hazards in Central America? , page 86
- A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.
See also
* pyroclast
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Similar to 'lahar'lawyer, liar, leer, lair, lier, layer, lower, louer, loir, lour, lewer, lear, lehr, lawer
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