Sentences with phrase «biggest volcanic effect»

The Siberian flood basalt eruption, the biggest volcanic effect on Earth, lasted for millions of years.

Not exact matches

Major volcanic eruptions can have a significant effect on the flow of the biggest rivers around the world, research shows.

A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago supports the idea that one of the planet's biggest mass extinctions was due to the combined effects of volcanic eruptions and an asteroid impact.

He tells Newsweek the findings play into a bigger picture, where we see large volcanic eruptions having an impact on the global climate that causes a chain effect resulting in social unrest.

«We know that volcanic activity can have a major effect on the environment, so the big question was, how are these two events related,» Macdonald said in a statement Monday.

Putting my geologist's hat on, it is certainly plausable that (for instance) the passage of a low pressure system could bring forward an explosive volcanic eruption by a few hours; but extra precipitation reaching a magma chamber, or just lubricating faults around the chamber would be a bigger effect.

The secondary effects of all of the above are very likely to bring on the biggest Earth quakes and largest volcanic eruptions observed for 200 years, the trends of these events have been rising since the early 1990s.

THE BIG PICTURE storm, earthquake & volcanic events come a lowerly 6th on the ladder of cause & effect & to study ocean temperature without finding out «why» under sea volcano eruptions happen isn't a sientific aproach in that book of mine.

Volcanic eruptions interfere with this pathway big time, and their winter warming effect is due to it.

Given the fact that internally the earth itself has large temperature changes which melts the upper mantle and deep crust producing volcanic eruptions at the surface, it is not difficult to see that the thermal energy involved and the mass of the earth itself, that the earth's own internal temperature fluctuations might have bigger effect on the atmosphere's temperature than the sun.