Lazar vs Lahar - What's the difference?
lazar | lahar |
(archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.
*, II.37:
*:And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.
(geology) A volcanic mudflow.
* 1985 , Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology , page 204
* 2000 , Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff & Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology? , page 138
* 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
As a proper noun lazar
is , lazarus.As a noun lahar is
lahar (volcanic mudflow).lazar
English
(wikipedia lazar)Noun
(en noun)See also
* Lazarus * leper ----lahar
English
(wikipedia lahar)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.