Definition of Plinian eruption

1. Noun. A volcanic eruption in which a stream of gas and ash is violently ejected to a height of several miles.

Generic synonyms: Eruption, Volcanic Eruption

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plinian Eruption

Pleurosorus
Pleurotus
Pleurotus ostreatus
Pleurotus phosphoreus
Pleven
Plevna
Plexiglas
Plicatoperipatus
Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
Plimmer's bodies
Plimsoll line
Plimsoll mark
Plimsoll marks
Plinian
Plinian eruption
Plinko
Pliny
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Pliocene
Pliocene epoch
Plip
Plips
Ploceidae
Ploceus
Ploceus philippinus
Plotinian
Plotinic
Plotinist

Literary usage of Plinian eruption

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International edited by T. J. Casadevall (1995)
"This cloud was the result of a combination of a plinian eruption column reinforced by co-ignimbrite ash clouds. In eruptions that produce very high columns, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On July 19 a plinian eruption occurred in the central crater, during which ... It is suggested that this plinian eruption is a symptom of an impending lava ..."

3. Modern Science in Bible Lands by Sir John William Dawson (1889)
"Pliny the Younger, as an eye-witness, well described this great eruption, whence it is sometimes known as the plinian eruption. In modern times Poulett ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... was buried beneath a flood of mud swept down from Vesuvius during the Plinian eruption of 79, and the hard tufaceous crust which thus sealed up the ill- ..."

5. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"... prior to the plinian eruption of 79 AD, -*- by far the most tragic, and one of the three most violent in Italian history, was regarded as an entirely ..."

6. Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International edited by T. J. Casadevall (1995)
"This cloud was the result of a combination of a plinian eruption column reinforced by co-ignimbrite ash clouds. In eruptions that produce very high columns, ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On July 19 a plinian eruption occurred in the central crater, during which ... It is suggested that this plinian eruption is a symptom of an impending lava ..."

8. Modern Science in Bible Lands by Sir John William Dawson (1889)
"Pliny the Younger, as an eye-witness, well described this great eruption, whence it is sometimes known as the plinian eruption. In modern times Poulett ..."

9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... was buried beneath a flood of mud swept down from Vesuvius during the Plinian eruption of 79, and the hard tufaceous crust which thus sealed up the ill- ..."

10. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"... prior to the plinian eruption of 79 AD, -*- by far the most tragic, and one of the three most violent in Italian history, was regarded as an entirely ..."

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