Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
caused ... volcanoes
English answer:
caused ... volcanic eruptions
Added to glossary by
Ana Juliá
Feb 24, 2009 14:44
15 yrs ago
English term
caused earthquakes and volcanoes
English
Art/Literary
Religion
Creation vs. Evolution
Consider for a moment the unthinkable! Suppose that the Bible were true in its account of a world-wide flood. In my travels, each time I go across the Pacific, I am always amazed as to its size and depth. Scientists refer to the ‘ring of fire’ of volcanoes and earthquake zones running down the west coast of the USA, the Andes of South America, the islands of Indonesia and up through south east Asia, Japan and north east Russia. This has led some Creation/Flood scientists to propose that the Flood was due to an impact with a large asteroid which catastrophically broke the Earth’s mantle (possibly in the Pacific which would explain its great depth), tilted the Earth off a ‘vertical’ spin axis and ***caused earthquakes and volcanoes*** of cataclysmic proportions. Not only did water fall from above, but water originally beneath the earth was released with tidal waves of immense depths sweeping across the globe.
Does "volcanoes" here mean that there appeared volcanos, or that there were volcanic eruptions?
Does "volcanoes" here mean that there appeared volcanos, or that there were volcanic eruptions?
Responses
| 5 +4 | volcanic eruptions |
d_vachliot (X)
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| 5 +1 | earthquakes and the formation of volcanoes/volcanic erruptions |
Christopher Crockett
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| 5 | There may have already have been volcanoes and earthquakes |
Gary D
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volcanic eruptions
That's what it means here.
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4 mins
Christopher Crockett
Native in English
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English
Specializes in field
M.A., Ph.D. Historian/Art Historian
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English
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earthquakes and the formation of volcanoes/volcanic erruptions
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Note added at 7 mins (2009-02-24 14:51:38 GMT)
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Logically you are right: "caused...volcanoes" doesn't make much sense ("caused volcanoes...to *what*" one might ask).
But, English ain't necessarily logical, and the idiom here means "caused [resulted in] the formation of volcanoes" or "volcanic eruptions."
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Note added at 45 mins (2009-02-24 15:30:18 GMT)
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"Does 'volcanoes' here mean that there appeared volcanos, or that there were volcanic eruptions?"
Both.
Ideomatically "volcanoes," in this context would mean both the topographical features and thegeological phenomena of *errupting* volcanoes.
Technically, your source should have said "caused...volcanic erruptions of catalclysmic proportions" --since a volcano, itself, cannot have "cataclysmic proportions."
OED:
VOLCANO
1. a. Physiogr. A more or less conical hill or mountain, composed wholly or chiefly of discharged matter, communicating with the interior of the globe by a funnel or crater, from which in periods of activity steam, gases, ashes, rocks, and freq. streams of molten materials are ejected.
b. An eruption or discharge of flame.
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Note added at 7 mins (2009-02-24 14:51:38 GMT)
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Logically you are right: "caused...volcanoes" doesn't make much sense ("caused volcanoes...to *what*" one might ask).
But, English ain't necessarily logical, and the idiom here means "caused [resulted in] the formation of volcanoes" or "volcanic eruptions."
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Note added at 45 mins (2009-02-24 15:30:18 GMT)
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"Does 'volcanoes' here mean that there appeared volcanos, or that there were volcanic eruptions?"
Both.
Ideomatically "volcanoes," in this context would mean both the topographical features and thegeological phenomena of *errupting* volcanoes.
Technically, your source should have said "caused...volcanic erruptions of catalclysmic proportions" --since a volcano, itself, cannot have "cataclysmic proportions."
OED:
VOLCANO
1. a. Physiogr. A more or less conical hill or mountain, composed wholly or chiefly of discharged matter, communicating with the interior of the globe by a funnel or crater, from which in periods of activity steam, gases, ashes, rocks, and freq. streams of molten materials are ejected.
b. An eruption or discharge of flame.
Peer comment(s):
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Robert Kleemaier
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Thanks, Robert.
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Kay Barbara
: Maybe I am completely wrong, but how does simply re-iterating the question ("formation of volcanoes" or "volcanic eruptions") help the asker?/Your answer shows a "/" and 2 very different things. And: "[...]idiom here means [...]OR[...]?Which one is right?
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Mmmm.... by answering her question?
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Thanks, Tina.
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There may have already have been volcanoes and earthquakes
There may have already been volcanoes and earthquakes, but the impact is said to have increased these to cataclysmic proportions. It is not saying it caused them, it is saying it increased them to a Severely destructive state.
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