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tindar

tindar noun: an elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.

Noun

tindar (plural tindars)

  1. An elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.

Forms of tindar

pluraltindars

Origin of tindar

Coined by American volcanologist John Gilbert Jones in 1968, after the Icelandic word Icelandic tindur (“pinnacle, peak”), although its plural form, tindar has, since Jones' coinage, been used incorrectly as the singular.

Questions about tindar

What does tindar mean?
Tindar means an elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.
What part of speech is tindar?
Tindar is a noun.
What is the plural of tindar?
The plural of tindar is tindars.

Words near tindar in the dictionary

  1. Tindall
  2. tindalo
  3. tindaloo
  4. tindalos
  5. tindals
  6. tindar
  7. Tindarey
  8. tindarid
  9. tindarids
  10. tindariid
  11. tindariids

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