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  • noun Plural form of fumarole.

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  • As gasses escape fissures in the side of the mountain, the melt through the snow pack-hollowing out the huge caves-and creating towering spires known as fumaroles when they hit the sub-zero air and instantly freeze. %userName% took away %your% star %userName% promoted %your% comment %userName% approved %you% %userName% took away %your% approval

    Gizmodo Andrew Tarantola 2011

  • Each of the holes, known as fumaroles, is blowing steam and volcanic gas 2,000 feet into the air.

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

  • Each of the holes, known as fumaroles, is blowing steam and volcanic gas 2,000 feet into the air.

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2009

  • Each of the holes, known as fumaroles, is blowing steam and volcanic gas 2,000 feet into the air.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Many of those in Terrence Malick's exquisite and also exasperating new film—his fifth in a career spanning four decades —are remarkable for their grandeur: billowing volcanoes, churning geysers, hissing fumaroles, spiral nebulas seen through the eye of the Hubble space telescope.

    A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Other landscape features include crater lakes, fumaroles, lava tubes, sulfur fields and a great variety of lava and other ejecta such as pumice, ash and tuff.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • It covers 136 square miles of historic Yellowstone National Park, rife with natural geysers, hot springs and steam-emitting fumaroles, though the lake freezes over in winter.

    Fifteen Lakes Worth A Visit 2010

  • It covers 136 square miles of historic Yellowstone National Park, rife with natural geysers, hot springs and steam-emitting fumaroles, though the lake freezes over in winter.

    Fifteen Lakes Worth A Visit 2010

  • The chief of Qualibou Energy Inc. said Monday that the company has signed a 30-year contract with St. Lucia's government to extract geothermal power in a remote area where fumaroles are flooded with water heated by hot rocks below.

    St. Lucia: Geothermal Energy Planned For Volcanic Caribbean Island 2010

  • It covers 136 square miles of historic Yellowstone National Park, rife with natural geysers, hot springs and steam-emitting fumaroles, though the lake freezes over in winter.

    Fifteen Lakes Worth A Visit 2010

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