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Tephramancy
Tephramancy Teph"ra*man`cy, n. [Gr. ? ashes + -mancy.] Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

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- Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism. Volcanologists also refer...
- rocks, and it reached its present height about 200,000 years ago. Several tephra layers encountered in ice cores at Mount Waesche and Byrd Station have been...
- Dasychira tephra, the tephra tussock moth, is a tussock moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1809. It is found...
- of Iceland with tephra, and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanoes. Approximately 10% of the tephra created in Iceland...
- approximately once every 50 years, but recent studies have shown that many tephra layers originally thought to be from other volcanoes were ejected from Bárðarbunga...
- Tachina tephra is a species of fly in the genus Tachina of the family Tachinidae that is endemic to Austria. "Binomial authority". Arctos. Retrieved 22...
- fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of 100 km/h...
- The Yn tephra is a geologically recent tephra deposit that covers portions of the U.S. state of Washington and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia...
- 24; VEI 6; 20 km3 (4.8 cu mi) of tephra Krakatoa, Indonesia; 1883, August 26–27; VEI 6; 21 km3 (5.0 cu mi) of tephra Mount Tambora, Lesser Sunda Islands...
- Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms. They are built by ejecta from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone...