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Fumarole Summary
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Any opening in the ground that emits hot steam or gas is a fumarole. Fumaroles are common on the flanks of volcanoes as well as in their craters and calderas. Extensive fumarole fields occur in areas where a shallow volcanic heat source is overlaid by...
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Fumarole
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Volcanic vent from which steam and volcanic gases issue. The major source of the steam emitted by fumaroles is groundwater heated by magma. Carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide are usually emitted directly from the magma. A fumarole...
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Fumarole : Environmental Health Terms
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A natural hole through which gas or steam is vented into the atmosphere from the side of a volcano or a region of volcanic...
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Fumarole Information
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A fumarole (Latin fumus, smoke) is an opening in Earth's (or any other astronomical body's) crust, often in the neighborhood of volcanoes, which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrochloric acid, and hydrogen sulfide. The...


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Rocks & Minerals
MINERALOGY OF FUMAROLE DEPOSITS FROM SUNSET CRATER VOLCANO, NORTHERN ARIZONA.(Brief Article)
07/01/2001: 418 words, approx. 1 pages
MINERALOGY OF FUMAROLE DEPOSITS FROM SUNSET CRATER VOLCANO, NORTHERN ARIZONA. S. L. Hanson,(1) A. U. Falster,(2) and W. B. Simmons(2): (1)Earth Science Dept., Adrian College, Adrian, MI 49221; (2)Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. Sunset...
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Rocks & Minerals
A new occurrence of cubic magnetite in fumarole deposits on the summit of Sunset Crater Volcano, Northern Arizona. (Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy).
03/01/2003: 328 words, approx. 1 pages
Sunset Crater Volcano, one of the nearly six hundred cinder cones in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, stands more than 300 meters tall near the eastern edge of the field. Located on the northwestern edge of a 10-kilometer-long, northwest-trending fissure, it represents the...
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Scientists worry about power on Spirit
12/11/2007: 329 words, approx. 1 pages
The Mars rover Spirit is racing against time to reach a resting spot for the winter after a giant dust storm drained much of its energy, scientists said Monday. Spirit has until Christmas to drive to the sunny slope of a low plateau where it...
 


 

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