Get to know Tephra better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Tephra in a sentence
Tephra meaning
The solid material thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption that settles on the surrounding areas.
Using Tephra
- The main meaning on this page is: The solid material thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption that settles on the surrounding areas.
Context around Tephra
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tephra
- In this selection, "tephra" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sampling, volcanic, unconsolidated, layers, falls and distribution stand out and add context to how "tephra" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a stratified tephra sequence in and gas sampling tephra distribution mapping. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tephra" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tephra
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Recent and ongoing projects include gravimetric and GPS-based geodetic monitoring, fumarole gas sampling, tephra distribution mapping, new interpretations of the Schriebers Meadow lava flow, and hazards analyses. (28 words)
Similarly, by tephrochronological techniques, the lack of glacier cover can be identified by the presence of soil or volcanic tephra horizons whose date of deposit may also be ascertained. (29 words)
An eruption in 1900 BCE was the largest known eruption from St. Helens during the Holocene epoch, judged by the volume of one of the tephra layers from that period. (30 words)
The loose pile of unconsolidated tephra would quickly have been washed away had the supply of fresh magma dwindled, and large clouds of dust were often seen blowing away from the island during this stage of the eruption. (38 words)
In this scenario the slopes of the mountain, extending out to about convert from the vent, may be exposed to pyroclastic flows sweeping down them, whilst much of the surrounding area could suffer from tephra falls. (36 words)
The technique is not restricted to tree rings; for example, a stratified tephra sequence in New Zealand, known to predate human colonization of the islands, has been dated to 1314 AD ± 12 years by wiggle-matching. (36 words)
Example sentences (6)
An eruption in 1900 BCE was the largest known eruption from St. Helens during the Holocene epoch, judged by the volume of one of the tephra layers from that period.
In this scenario the slopes of the mountain, extending out to about convert from the vent, may be exposed to pyroclastic flows sweeping down them, whilst much of the surrounding area could suffer from tephra falls.
Recent and ongoing projects include gravimetric and GPS-based geodetic monitoring, fumarole gas sampling, tephra distribution mapping, new interpretations of the Schriebers Meadow lava flow, and hazards analyses.
Similarly, by tephrochronological techniques, the lack of glacier cover can be identified by the presence of soil or volcanic tephra horizons whose date of deposit may also be ascertained.
The loose pile of unconsolidated tephra would quickly have been washed away had the supply of fresh magma dwindled, and large clouds of dust were often seen blowing away from the island during this stage of the eruption.
The technique is not restricted to tree rings; for example, a stratified tephra sequence in New Zealand, known to predate human colonization of the islands, has been dated to 1314 AD ± 12 years by wiggle-matching.