Sentences with phrase «active volcanism»

Although the South America plate exhibits a chain of active volcanism resulting from the subduction and partial melting of the Nazca oceanic lithosphere along most of the arc, these regions of inferred shallow subduction correlate with an absence of volcanic activity.

The new extension will provide, among other objectives, an improved understanding of how Venus» climate works, and scientists will continue the search for suspected active volcanism on the surface.

In geology, a hotspot is a location on the Earth's surface that has experienced active volcanism for a long period of time.

Feulner also defined the years 1928 - 1931, 1932 - 1933, 1951 - 1952, and 1953 - 1955 as years with active volcanism (there is some discussion about such forcings here and here, but not for the same period).

Peering through the clouds in infrared «windows» — wavelengths that penetrate the murk — Venus Express also saw surface hot spots that change in temperature from day to day, suggesting active volcanism.

Indeed, a study in 2006 suggested that Mars may have gone through an acidic phase, triggered by active volcanism, after an early period in which it had a denser atmosphere and large bodies of neutral - pH water on its surface.

The purpose of Katmai National Park and Preserve is to protect, study, and interpret active volcanism surrounding the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, extensive coastal resources, habitats supporting a high concentration of salmon and brown bears, and an ongoing story of humans integrated with a dynamic subarctic ecosystem.

Since there is active volcanism near the surface, the Icelanders can tap that free heat to boil water and power steam engines.

Venus Express proved it would work: Looking at one infrared wavelength allowed astronomers to see hot spots that might be signs of active volcanism (SN Online: 6/19/15).

«Active volcanism on Venus.»

Enceladus is only the third body in the solar system to show signs of active volcanism, besides Earth and Io, Jupiter's moon.

This process drives the active volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io.

A few years later, scientists reported transient spikes in sulfur dioxide in Venus» upper atmosphere, another potential signal of active volcanism.

Fred Taylor, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford who is part of the Venus Express team, says that the catastrophic resurfacing hypothesis can be adapted to the discovery of active volcanism, as it was never necessary to assume that the planet has been utterly dead since the resurfacing event.

Active volcanism on Venus in the Ganiki Chasma rift zone.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet rests over a geologically complex region characterized by thin crust, high heat flows, active volcanism and sedimentary basins (9 - 16).

«There are lake records all over the planet, but it's very hard to find that kind of consistent record in the Andes with all the active volcanism and tectonics that happen there.

There is also a spurious drift over the whole period — possibly caused by anthropogenic water vapour and / or aerosols — and this period had frequent episodes of active volcanism.