Volcanic /(?)/
Vol·can·ic
Volcanic
a.
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
Phrases & Compounds
- Volcanic bomb
- a mass ejected from a volcano, often of molten lava having a rounded form.
- Volcanic cone
- a hill, conical in form, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions.
- Volcanic foci
- the subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active.
- Volcanic glass
- the vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian.
- Volcanic mud
- fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano.
- Volcanic rocks
- rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.