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eruptive

[ UK /ɪɹˈʌptɪv/ ]
[ US /ˌiˈɹəptɪv, ˌɪˈɹəptɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. actively spewing out lava
    a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring
  2. produced by the action of fire or intense heat
    rocks formed by igneous agents
  3. producing or characterized by eruptions
    an eruptive disease

How To Use eruptive In A Sentence

  • For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
  • This could be due either to lack of preservation caused by erosion or to the fact that Taapaca Volcanic Complex has not produced high eruptive columns.
  • Since the adoption of the exhalative model for the mineralization, the host succession has been interpreted as a dominantly effusive, and explosively eruptive, volcanic pile.
  • All eruptive rocks penetrate, as ramifying veins either into the sedimentary strata, or into other equally endogenous masses; but there is a special importance to be attached to the difference manifested between 'Plutonic' rocks* (granite, porphyry, and serpentine) and those termed 'volcanic' in the strict sense of the word (as trachyte, basalt, and lava). COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • It also is used to ripen eruptive diseases such as measles; and promotes diaphoresis, making it useful for fevers.
  • a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring
  • Herbs with a floating energy have diaphoretic properties and are used for the initial stages of colds, flus, fevers and eruptive skin diseases.
  • It is a truly eruptive rock, occurring in intrusive bosses, or in beds interstratified with gneiss and mica-schist, and owes its various shades of green to the presence of copper. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • Yet here, as we are told by Richthofen and others, there must once have been a great eruptive centre, breaking out again and again, and each time throwing up a different kind of rock: – first Syenite; then Tourmaline granite; then Uralite porphyry; then melaphyr; then, last of all, porphyrite, and the unique Syenite porphyry, famous for its crystals, and unknown elsewhere. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • Mauclair points out that fifteen years before _pointillisme_ (the system of dots, like eruptive small-pox, instead of the touches of Monet) was invented, Renoir in his portrait of Sisley used the stipplings. Promenades of an Impressionist
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