eruptive

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Eruptive history, geochronology, and magmatic evolution of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex, Chile.

From Nature • Dec. 12, 2017

Eruptive rocks had burst through the chalk, producing interesting metamorphic phenomena.

From Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Eruptive ailments are excited by external causes, which he supposes to be animalcula.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

These are called Eruptive Fevers, and embrace chicken-pox, cow-pox, small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, milary fever, and erysipelas, or St. Anthony's fire.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Eruptive Rocks, in geology, those which, as lavas, have broken through other rocks while in a molten state, and become eruptive at the surface.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various