Nevado del Ruiz
Ne•va•do del Ruiz
(nɛˈvɑ ðɔ ðɛl ˈrwis)n.
单词 | nevado del ruiz |
释义 | Nevado del RuizNe•va•do del Ruiz(nɛˈvɑ ðɔ ðɛl ˈrwis)n. Nevado del RuizNevado del Ruiz,volcano, 17,457 ft (5,321 m) high, in the Cordillera Central of the N Andes, E Colombia, on the Caldas-Tolima dept. border. A broad, glacier-covered stratovolcano, it can produce explosive eruptions with pyroclastic flowspyroclastic flow,turbulent, fluidized mixture of rock, volcanic ash, and hot gas that moves like an avalanche away from a volcanic eruption. A pyroclastic flow may contain a mix of rock fragments ranging up to the size of boulders, with the heavier fragments moving along closer ..... Click the link for more information. , and the melting of glaciers by those hot gases has resulted in devastating lahars (fast-moving mud and debris flows) during its eruptions, most recently in Nov., 1985, when a lahar buried or washed away Armero, a town 46 mi (74 km) away. The 1985 eruption, in which some 23,000 died, was one of the deadliest volcanic disasters of the 20th cent. |
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