Meaning of Plinian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to Pliny the Younger or Pliny the Elder.
   not-comparable
2. Descriptive of a style of volcanic eruption similar in character and in intensity to that of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius witnessed by Pliny the Younger.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“The earliest activity of Monte Vulture, central Italy, included ignimbrites but the bulk of the volcano was built up by plinian airfall deposits.”

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