AGGLOMERATE

Agglomerate

Agglomerates are coarse accumulations of large blocks of volcanic material that contain at least 75% bombs. Volcanic bombs differ from volcanic blocks in that their shape records fluidal surfaces: they may, for example, have ropy, cauliform, scoriaceous, or folded, chilled margins and spindle, spatter, ribbon, ragged, or amoeboid shapes. Globular masses of lava may have been shot from the crater at a time when partly molten lava was exposed, and was frequently shattered by sudden outbursts of steam. These bombs were viscous at the moment of ejection and by rotation in the air acquired their shape. They are commonly in diameter, but specimens as large as have been ...

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agglomerate

Noun

  1. A collection or mass.
  2. A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
  3. An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.

Verb

  1. To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

Adjective

agglomerate

  1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.


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