/ˈlɑhɑɹ/
OriginBorrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.
- A volcanic mudflow.
“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 contain”
“A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.”
Formslahars(plural)