How to Use fumarole in a Sentence

fumarole

noun
  • The area is home to some of the park's geothermal wonders: hot pools, mud pots, and steaming fumaroles.
    National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2016
  • The center of the island supports a field of fumaroles, openings through which hot gases emerge.
    Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Rising hot water boils to form pools and mud pots, while steam reaches the surface through fractures in the Earth to form fumaroles.
    Mike Morris, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Calderas, fumaroles, volcanic lakes and thermal springs dot the landscape.
    Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • These wheezing, roaring fumaroles dyed much of the landscape a bright yellow.
    Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The Hot Rocks fumarole, where the heat from the earth never allows snow to accumulate, is just climber’s left.
    Outside Online, 29 May 2022
  • Its fumaroles are active enough that visitors wear gas masks to avoid breathing the acrid sulfur gas.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Steam rises from the hot springs and fumaroles that pockmark this dormant volcano, and two small glaciers provide dazzling views.
    National Geographic, 29 May 2019
  • Hot springs, bubbling pools, mud pots, fumaroles and lakeshore geysers empty into the lake’s chilly waters.
    Niloufer Venkatraman, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
  • Phillips orchestrates a hike around prized thermal features like mud pots, hot springs, and fumaroles (steam vents) as a discussion on the creation of the world and its living wonders takes place.
    Jenn Rice, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Breakfast at sun-break in the Geysers of Tatio, the highest geothermal fields on earth: fields of steaming geysers, fumaroles, hundreds of pools of boiling water with the striking background of the Cordillera peaks.
    Maita Barrenechea, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The only signal could be increasing temperature of fumarole and crater lakes as the crater vent area heats up — but that might not even be necessary.
    Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2014
  • The only signal could be increasing temperature of fumarole and crater lakes as the crater vent area heats up -- but that might not even be necessary.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2014
  • The yellow crust around steam vents (known as fumaroles) is evidence of sulfur crystallising out of gases and liquids at these volcanoes.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • The smoking fumaroles, sky-blue hot springs, and mossy hills intermingle to create the kinds of pastel neon sediments normally found in cartoons, not nature.
    Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2017
  • In the fumarole, the volcano’s secondary vent, Turrell imagines a brass bath where transducers hooked to a radio telescope will broadcast the sounds of passing planets and the Milky Way underwater.
    Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Explore bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles, and lava castles around Lake Mývatn.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Here are a few: Lassen Volcanic, replete with mountain lakes, alpine meadows, boisterous fumaroles and four types of dormant volcanoes, is one of the West’s overlooked national parks.
    David Swanson, latimes.com, 1 July 2018
  • Heat and volcanic activity from the depths of Earth power this dramatic landscape, evidenced by its geysers, fumaroles, and hot springs.
    Niloufer Venkatraman, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
  • The terrain is dramatic and varied — volcanic crater lakes, lush forests, fumaroles, waterfalls, black-sand beaches, and azure waves define the breathtaking landscape.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The whole area seethes with hydrothermal activity: Sulfuric acid spews from active fumaroles; geysers spout water and steam; the ground froths with boiling mud; and earthquake swarms shudder through the region, 125 miles south of Rome.
    Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Bumpass Hell basin is an area of hydrothermal fumaroles and boiling mud pits crossed by a boardwalk, also recently reconstructed.
    Red Bluff Daily News, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The voyages offer travelers an easy way to get to some of Iceland's most remote areas and see the full range of its famously striking landscapes, from geothermal fields of geysers and fumaroles to mountains, glaciers, volcanoes and waterfalls.
    Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The fumaroles, steam plumes and bubbling, bursting geysers put on an impressive natural exhibition.
    Photographs By Adam Harteau, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Each fumarole, Imbler notes reaches around 212 degrees Fahrenheit in temperature, certainly hot enough to injure mammalian bystanders.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Our destination is the Pisciarelli fumarole, on a small hillside just meters behind an artificial soccer field.
    Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Bringing several types of data together – mineralogical, morphological, and chemical – Ruff and his colleagues have published a convincing report arguing that the opaline silica at Home Plate came from a hot spring rather than a volcanic fumarole.
    Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2016
  • One of the characteristics that makes Yellowstone National Park so famous is its many readily visible hydrothermal features, including hot springs, geysers, mudpots, fumaroles, and travertine terraces.
    Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2020

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