lava
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During “Firefall” in February — an annual phenomenon when sunlight lands on the water cascading from Horsetail Fall, making it glow orange and red, like molten lava — the crowds were reportedly nightmarish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
But around 182 million years ago, massive volcanic eruptions spread lava across much of the inland Karoo Basin, where many dinosaurs once lived.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
“To now routinely produce an icy Earth, a young Earth, a lava planet—those are huge technological innovations.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The one that appears alongside onion petals, Monte Cristos and a molten chocolate lava cake that arrives under a small weather system of powdered sugar.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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