lava bed

collocation in English

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lava
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlɑː.və/us
/ˈlɑː.və/
hot liquid rock that comes out of the earth through a volcano, or the solid rock formed when ...
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bed
noun
uk
/bed/us
/bed/
a large, rectangular piece of furniture, often with four legs, used for ...
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(Definition oflavaandbedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This involved five-mile long stretches oflavabedwhich was very destructive of the cars.
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Access into the interior of thelavabedis difficult, since there are no roads or trails crossing the lava field.
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It is a big round natural solidifiedlavabedsurrounded by many white triangular prisms that seem to radiate from its center, a bit like a sunflower.
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At the summit, the wagon road had to be cut through the lava beds.
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Repeated eruptions form a thick sequence of lava beds that can reach a combined thickness of up to 20 km.
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Irrigated farmland covers the southern part of the county, while lava beds cover the northern portion.
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It can grow in many types of soils, including sandy and clay substrates, serpentine soils, and lava beds.
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They are typically surrounded by basalt or andesite that erupted from their bases forming large lava beds.
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These rock formations cover older ones such as volcanic cones and old lava beds.
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The camps were most frequently located on lava beds because of the retention and radiation of the suns heat off the rock.
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A line of volcanoes crosses it from north to south, and extensive lava beds cover a considerable part of its surface.
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The highway north was unpaved from many years after its completion in 1972, and the local lava beds were terrible on tires.
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The lava beds, which reach 12mft 0 above the road in some places, are the burial ground of these people.
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Lava beds rise as much as 12 metres above the modern road.
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Because it is part of a historically volcanic region, volcanic rock formations are a common sight, including lava beds, volcanic buttes, crater lakes, volcanic plugs, and lava tubes.
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Todays highway follows the wagon route over the lava beds past the observatory site.
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