How to pronounce“tephra”in English
It all starts to fall outside the crater, or bowl shaped depression that usually forms at the summit, around the base of the volcano.
Alternate layers of tephra and lava, which doesn’t flow very far from the volcano, produce a composite or stratovolcano with a tall cone shape that steepens towards the summit.
So we get the classic, symmetrical volcano of our imaginations, like Mount Mayon in the Philippines, Mount Fuji in Japan, Mount Shishaldin in Alaska, and Pico de Orizaba in Mexico.
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Definitions of “tephra”
The solid material thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption that settles on the surrounding areas.
“The sky would have darkened with sheer volume of ash, the grapes would have withered upon the vine; misfortune would have fallen with the inexorability of volcanic tephra upon rich and poor alike.”
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