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Definition: Lahar |
LaharNoun1. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geological | A flowing mixture of water-saturated rock debris that forms on the slopes of a volcano, and moves downslope under the force of gravity, sometimes referred to as debris flow or mudflow. The term comes from Indonesia. (references) |
| A type of mudflow that originates on the slopes of volcanoes when volcanic ash and debris becomes saturated with water and flows rapidly downslope. (references) | |
Mining | See:mudflow. (references) |
Public Administration | Flow of acid ash and blocks imbibed with ash in volcanic eruptions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A lahar is defined as a rock-laden flood made up of 40 percent or more by weight volcanic debris. A lahar flows like wet concrete and is very fast, outstripping a normal water-only flow. Lahars have been clocked at 65 kilometers per hour (40 mph). See When Rivers of Rock Flow. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lahars have the consistency of concrete: wet when moving, then solid when stopped. Lahars can range in size: the lahar produced by Mount Rainier in the USA 5600 years ago produced a wall of mud 600 feet deep in the White River canyon.
Lahars can be extremely dangerous, because of their energy and speed: large lahars can flow several tens of meters per second. Lahars can bury and entomb large areas. The lahars from the Nevado del Ruiz eruption in Colombia in 1985 killed an estimated 23,000 people.
Lahars have several possible causes [1]
Several mountains in the world, including Mount Rainier, Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, and Galunggung in Indonesia are considered dangerous due to a risk of lahars. Several towns near Mount Rainier, including Orting, Washington, are built on top of lahar deposits that are only ~500 years old. Lahars are predicted to reach Orting every 500-1000 years, so the town has considerable risk. The USGS has set up lahar warning sirens in Orting, so that people can flee the approaching debris flow. A lahar warning system is also being set up at Mount Ruapehu by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.
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Crosswords: Lahar |
| Specialty definitions using "lahar": Composite volcano ♦ Debris flow ♦ Lahar-runout flow ♦ Mudflow. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lahar" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Indonesian (lava). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Lahar (1996) | |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "lahar" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lahar | Last name | 130 | 56,069 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lahar | 12 |
lahar raleigh | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "lahar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | lahar. (various references) | |
Dutch | lahar. (various references) | |
Finnish | lahar. (various references) | |
French | lahar. (various references) | |
German | Lahar. (various references) | |
Greek | λαχάρ. (various references) | |
Italian | lahar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aharlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lahar. (various references) | |
Spanish | lahar. (various references) | |
Swedish | lahar. (various references) | |
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Words beginning with "lahar": lahars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-l-r" | |
-1 letter: alar, haar, harl. | |
-2 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, lar, rah. | |
-3 letters: aa, ah, al, ar, ha, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-l-r" | |
+1 letter: ashlar, bharal, hartal, lahars. | |
+2 letters: ashlars, bharals, gharial, halyard, hamular, hartals, lashkar, marshal, narwhal, phrasal, rachial, trehala. | |
+3 letters: amphoral, antheral, archaeal, archival, arrhizal, ashlared, brachial, charcoal, charlady, exarchal, gharials, hairball, halliard, hallmark, halyards, handrail, hardball, haulyard, hearable, hexaplar, lashkars, marshall, marshals, narwhale, narwhals, parhelia, pearlash, phratral, rachilla, railhead, sharable, thoracal, tracheal, trehalas. | |
+4 letters: allograph, archangel, archducal, ashlaring, authorial, bilharzia, brachials, branchial, carbachol, catarrhal, cathedral, chaparral, charcoals, charlatan, clathrate, diarrheal, flashcard, graphical, haggardly, hairballs, halliards, hallmarks, handlebar, handrails, hardballs, haulyards, heartland, inhalator, lachrymal, marshalcy, marshaled, marshalls, marshland, monarchal, narwhales, parochial, phalanger, phalarope, phrasally, rachillae, railheads, reachable, rehearsal, shareable, theriacal, thesaural, trailhead, ultraheat. | |
+5 letters: allographs, alphameric, anarchical, apocryphal, archangels, archetypal, arthralgia, arthralgic, aspherical, backlasher, balderdash, barrelhead, behavioral, bilharzial, bilharzias, blackheart, breathable, carbachols, cathedrals, chalkboard, chaparrals, charcoaled, chargeable, charitable, charitably, charladies, charlatans, chartulary, clathrates, clawhammer, exhilarate, fatherland, flashboard, flashcards, hallmarked, halocarbon, handlebars, haustorial, heartlands, hierarchal, hypaethral, inhalators, marshaling, marshalled, marshlands, menarcheal, monarchial, octahedral, panhandler, pearlashes, phalangers, phalaropes, pharyngeal, prothallia, ramshackle, rehearsals, saltshaker, searchable, theatrical, tracheolar, trailheads, ultraheats, ultraheavy, ultrahuman, ultrasharp, withdrawal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 68 61 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .... .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101000 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a h a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0068 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667746784 |
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