Sentences with phrase «active volcanic region»

Today, Katmai is still a very active volcanic region, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a visual and scientific wonder.

The islands are part of the Pacific ring of fire, a highly active volcanic region that regularly throws up new islands.

Taking into account that he can not be expected to equate all the hypothesis in an abbreviated answer he could of at least acknowledged that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the worlds most active volcanic regions.

Not exact matches

For example, Central Anatolia is described as an elevated, dry, cold plain of Lycaonia in Strabo's Geographika in 7 BC, and even cave paintings in the region dating to approximately 7000 BC record active volcanic eruptions on the plateau.»

«Here's an archipelago of volcanic islands that are broadly active over a large region, and the plume is almost decoupled from the plate motion itself,» Toomey said.

Ward and Delph calculated their plutonic - to - volcanic ratio by comparing the volume of regions where seismic waves travel extremely slowly beneath volcanically active regions, indicating some melt is present, with the volume of rock deposited on the surface by volcanoes.

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 temblor spawned no eruptions, but it set off small quakes all across the western United States, especially near active volcanic and geothermal regions.

Geologically active regions around the world and especially in close proximity to melting ice and rising seas saw much greater volcanic eruption, earthquake and tsunami frequency.