lahar

Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑhɑɹ/

lahar (plural lahars)

1. (geology) A volcanic mudflow.
   • 1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, page 204

     Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.

   • 2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff & Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology‎, page 138

     Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.

   • 2006, Andrew J. L. Harris et al., "Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala", in William Ingersoll Rose (ed.), Volcanic Hazards in Central America‎, page 86

     A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.

• pyroclast

• Rahal

lahar

1. bramble

Ultimately from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

• Hyphenation: la‧har

lahar

1. (geology) lahar; a volcanic mudflow

lahar (plural lahar-lahar, first-person possessive laharku, second-person possessive laharmu, third-person possessive laharnya)

1. lava

• berlahar

lahar m (plural lahars or lahares)

1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

lahar m (plural lahares)

1. lahar