volcanic island

collocation in English

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volcanic
adjective
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/vɒlˈkæn.ɪk/us
/vɑːlˈkæn.ɪk/
of, relating to, or made by a volcano (= a mountain with a hole at the top through which hot liquid rock is or has been ...
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island
noun[C]
uk
/ˈaɪ.lənd/us
/ˈaɪ.lənd/
a piece of land completely surrounded ...
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(Definition ofvolcanicandislandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Fogo is a hotspotvolcanicisland.
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Title based on thevolcanicislandof the same name.
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It is the largestvolcanicislandlocated within a lake.
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Offshore volcanoes form islands, resulting in avolcanicislandarc.
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This created the illusion that thevolcanicislandwas erupting.
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This was probably because of easy access to geothermic hot springs on thisvolcanicisland.
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The termvolcanicislandarc is merely a sub-classification of island arc.
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Thevolcanicislandis dotted with cinder cones, tuff cones, pyroclastic cones, maars and crater lakes.
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In the greatest dimension, thisvolcanicislandis 44mi km long and 30mi km across.
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One type of volcanic oceanic island is found in avolcanicislandarc.
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It is avolcanicislandwith four active volcanoes overlooking scrub plains.
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It is avolcanicislandand the crater is still obvious.
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The module starts with the party trapped, without any gear, deep beneath avolcanicisland.
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Thisvolcanicislandis known for its underwater fumaroles which can be accessed by diving.
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It is a smallvolcanicislandwith a fringing coral reef.
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It is avolcanicislandwith an elevation of 130mft 0 and an area of 40ha acre.
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Trenches are generally parallel to avolcanicislandarc, and about 200km mi from a volcanic arc.
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It is not a quaternaryvolcanicisland, but rather is believed to be an upthrusted part of upper mantle material.
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Hotspotvolcanicislandridges are created by volcanic activity, erupting periodically, as the tectonic plates pass over a hotspot.
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The island masses consisted of rifted fragments of pre-existing continents andvolcanicislandmasses created over subduction zones.
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Scientists discovered that extremely large landslides fromvolcanicislandcollapses can generate megatsunamis that can cross oceans.
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These islands were formed when the caldera of single ancientvolcanicislandcollapsed, leaving three islands in a ring formation.
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Trindade is a mountainous, desiccatedvolcanicislandwith numerous phonolitic lava domes and steep-sided volcanic plugs.
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Because of its shallow depth, scientists believe it was an activevolcanicislandthroughout the last ice age.
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This scenario is set southeast of a major empire, on avolcanicislandgeographically isolated and unrelated to the other powers in the world.
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