Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology: A characteristic structure seen in certain shales or hardened mud-rocks, and produced by the stoppage and subsequent hardening of a small flow of soft fluid mud.
- noun A great flow of mud and water such as often attends volcanic eruptions, when rain, or hot water from the crater, gathers up fine volcanic tuff and flows with it down the sides of the volcano like a sheet of lava.
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Examples
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The result was one of the country's worst environmental disasters: a mud-flow that inundated more than 4.5 square kilometers of land and displaced 25,000 people.
Jakarta Drifts 2007
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The cliff towering at the junction of the two thoroughfares shared with each its generous mud-flow and half of it descended in lavalike cascades into the depths of a ravine that crossed the high street at right angles, passing under
In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876
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"With wild fury the black cloud rolled down the mountain slope, pressing closely the contours of the valley along which had previously swept the mud-flow that overwhelmed the factory three days before, and spreading fan-like to the sea.
Plotting in Pirate Seas Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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