Word: lava
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millions of years ago a huge lava flow crept across south central Idaho, moving south, filling in canyons, leveling off the countryside. When the flow ceased, the upper crust cooled and hardened, while the lower lava continued flowing. Along the buried canyons the sub-lava flood tore out everything it could carry along, leaving vacant spaces roofed over by the cold crust. As the material weathered it began to collapse. This is now taking place on Robertson's farm...
...There may be also a laccolith: a formation where lava once pooled into a cone. The top crust cooled but the hot material beneath found egress, leaving a bubble formation with the top separated from the bottom by perhaps 1,500 ft. In this case sinking would continue until a box canyon was formed...
...tidal wave that drowned 36,000 inhabitants of adjacent lands. In the Krakatau group, four new islands were formed from the wreck of the former three. Naturalists agreed almost unanimously that every particle of life, down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal...
...Chairman John L. Lewis to Mussolini, "the unscrupulous and arrogant dictator of whom it has been said he suffers at times from a rush of blood to the head, an extravagant rage, a surge of destructive wilfulness. Like a volcano he spouts flame and burning lava, spreading poisonous gases over the countryside...
Denmark's towering Christian X kings it over two separate realms. The second is a subarctic island covered with glaciers and boiling volcanoes, vast lava beds, gravel deserts and eternal clouds of sand and pumice dust. This is Iceland, whose 115,000 proud citizens are chiefly crowded in the lowlying southwestern corner of their grim island. Iceland won home rule in 1874, independent sovereignty in 1918. To show Icelanders that he takes his job as King of Iceland dead seriously, King Christian learned some Icelandic. Last week, for the first time in six years, King Christian paid Iceland...