| 单词 | driblet cone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdriblet cone driblet cone n. a cone produced by the successive ejections of small quantities of lava; a hornito. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] > cone or peak pike1555 puy1827 cone1830 hornito1830 monticule1830 cinder-cone1849 parasitic cone1863 mud cone1868 piton1886 driblet cone1888 sommac1910 shield1937 1888 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 32 The projectile process in the basalt-volcano..makes not cinder-cones, but dribblet-cones, 15 to 40 feet high, out of the projected masses, the falling driblets becoming plastered together. 1888 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 32 Such driblet-cones are of all angles from 30° to 90°. 1939 A. K. Lobeck Geomorphol. xix. 675 Where gases sputter out through the side of the dome, a spatter or driblet cone may be built up 10 to 12 feet above the ground. 1969 C. Ollier Volcanoes v. 58 Spatter may be erupted through a crack in the surface of a pahoehoe flow, and build up a small cone or spire of scoria and driblets. This is called a hornito or driblet cone. The term is usually restricted to small features perhaps 5 m high. < as lemmas |
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