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A satellite picture showed a massive cloud cover over the state, with numerous little volcanolike puffs of cloud tops.
Storm Warning Nancy Mathis 2007
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The most curious feature on the moon's surface are the bands of lighter colour, which, radiating from certain of the volcanolike pits -- those of lesser size and probably of latest origin -- extend in some cases for five hundred miles or more across the surface.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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So much water leaks through levees on a heavily industrialized stretch between Kent and Renton that engineers have reported seeing "sand boils," volcanolike burbles of water and earth that appear on what should be the dry side - another sign that the levees are eroding from within.
The Seattle Times 2009
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