The study of volcanoes, or
Volcanology, includes many odd terms. How many of these do you know?
- caldera
- vesicularity
- pahoehoe
- rheology
- lahar
The term nuée ardente, or
"glowing cloud" was first used by La Croix (1904)
in his description of the volcanic flows he observed in
the 1902 eruption of Mt Pelée, a historically
active volcano on the island of Martinique.