lava
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It’s got a purple corded phone, a lava lamp, a beanbag chair … and it happens to be a habitat at a zoo on a planet of bug people.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
However, later volcanic activity created the Drakensberg Group, covering many of these fossil-bearing layers with lava.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
Among them is his Oscar-shortlisted “The Deep,” the tale of an Icelandic fisherman who survived a 1984 shipwreck for six hours in 41-degrees-Fahrenheit ocean water, swam to shore and then walked barefoot over lava fields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The one that appears alongside onion petals, Monte Cristos and a molten chocolate lava cake that arrives under a small weather system of powdered sugar.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
Then, beginning in December 1980, a lava dome in the middle of the new summit crater began to grow.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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