Sentences with phrase «by lava flows»

It was created by lava flows from Pico Viejo, next to Mount Teide.

A three - night stay would give you a second full day, allowing more time to do additional hikes, see more of the Park, or, perhaps, Hilo town and the waterfalls along the Hāmākua Coast, or the Ka «ū District, with its black and green sand beaches and coffee farms, or lower Puna, the main town in which, Pāhala, mostly avoided being run over by lava flows from Kīlauea's East Rift Zone (ERZ) vent, Pu`u «Ō «ō, in 2014; currently, the ERZ flows are approachable from the unpaved emergency road, on rented bicycles, then, by hiking up the pali («steep hill» in Hawaiian).

It's part of the Oregon Coast's geological history, formed millions of years ago by lava flows that created many of the dramatic capes and headlands on the Oregon Coast.

We start our Costa Rican activity package with a world class zipline canopy tour that includes rappelling, rock climbing, and swings through an impressive canyon formed by the lava flows of the last great eruption of the Rincon de la Vieja Volcano.

The major challenge in climbing Lengai (aside from keeping your guide awake) is navigating the crumbling channels created by the lava flows which, in turn, give way to increasingly steep and slippery rock faces.

Radar observations find that about 80 percent of the surface is covered by lava flows with a few Australia - size uplands of two to five km (1.2 to 3.1 miles) high, and there are large shield volcanoes that rise above the plains as high as 11 km (6.8 miles)-- higher than Mount Everest's eight km (five miles) above Earth sea - level.

by lava flows that obscured the older craters.

Snell says that fieldworkers fear that several tortoises may already have been overcome by lava flows.

Maps of its gravity have confirmed the existence of hidden, ancient craters, long since filled in by lava flows.

And its surface is basaltic — largely formed by lava flows from below.

State scientists and officials are warning some residents of Hawaii's Big Island that their homes could be jeopardized by a lava flow from Kilauea Volcano that is moving through a forest preserve toward their neighborhood.

One hundred and eighty million years ago, this Jurassic fern was minding its own business when it was suddenly engulfed by a lava flow.

A favorite dive is the USS Liberty Wreck, which has the distinction of being the only ship in the world sunk by a lava flow.

Lava Tubes were formed by lava flowing from the Undara volcano when it erupted around 190 million years ago.

Not exact matches

The US today has neither the clout nor the stamina to stem the lava flow of a volcanic eruption triggered by a color revolution that may spill over Iran's borders.

The depths are generally too great to support a munificence of coral like the Caribbean shoals; the land is still being changed too much by erosion and flowing lava to encourage a fringing reef.

The new pictures, which were released by NASA on November 19, revealed a fiery landscape swept with colossal lava flows, vast lava lakes, towering and collapsing mountains and more than 100 active volcanoes.

This study used variations in the thermal emissivity of the surface observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to identify compositional differences in lava flows at three hotspots.

After puzzling it over and practically wallpapering his house with seafloor topography and magnetic field maps, in 1993 Klimley hypothesized that somehow their oblong - shaped heads can sense tiny changes in the magnetic lines created by volcanic lava flows.

That was followed by streams of lava, some as deep as six feet, flowing down the sides of the volcano.

The far side has significantly fewer of the familiar dark patches, formed by ancient lava flows.

He tested his hypothesis by cross-checking carbon - 14 ages for the lava flows against dates included in royal Hawaiian genealogies.

These darker regions are covered by dark bedrock and fine - grained sand deposits ground down from ancient lava flows and other volcanic features.

Solutions offered by the public range from thoughtful to wacky: «Why couldn't it be possible to collect the larger pieces of trash by skimming the most polluted concentrations with troll nets and attaching them to helicopters that would then deposit them into the path of the ongoing lava flow of Kilauea to be consumed and incorporated into new rock?»

These caves and holes likely formed the same way they do on Earth, carved by a channel of flowing lava.

This vast volcanic plain appears to contain some of the youngest lava flows on the moon, as well as rocks ejected by impacts that could be parts of the buried lunar crust.

The vivid electric - blue color of flows down the side of Indonesian volcano Kawah Ijen is actually caused by sulfuric gas released at the same time as plain - old basaltic lava.

Robot explorers might also aim for lava tubes, tunnels excavated by ancient volcanic flows and shielded from radiation.

The new pictures, which were released by NASA on November 19, reveal a fiery landscape swept with colossal lava flows, vast lava lakes, towering and collapsing mountains and more than 100 active volcanoes.

To put the pieces of the puzzle together, they combined three approaches previously not used together to reconstruct the ancient magma plumbing system by looking for chemical signatures in lava rock collected from flows on the surface.

The explosions threw up little splashes of lava, which hardened, rained down and were swept off by the flow.

Those data showed increased infrared radiation coming from several volcanic regions and was interpreted by a NASA - funded team as evidence that the rocks there formed from lava flows within the past million years — recently, on a geological timescale.

The hotspots, which were found to flash and fade over the course of just a few days, appear to be generated by active flows of lava on the surface.

The Chinese lunar rover, Yutu, photographed by its lander Chang «e-3, after the lander touched down in Mare Imbrium, a giant impact basin that had been filled by successive lava flows.

The volcanic cones and lava flows we see on the surface of Earth are fed by magma from great depth.

Scientists analyzing data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that a hot super-Earth, which might have flowing lava on its surface, likely has an atmosphere.

«The amount of energy being emitted by these eruptions implies lava fountains gushing out of fissures at a very large volume per second, forming lava flows that quickly spread over the surface of Io.»

In 2010 the hot spots were dominated by two volcanic centers: Loki Patera, an extremely large active lava lake on Io, and Kanehekili Fluctus, an area of continuing pahoehoe lava flows.

From orbit, pictures have shown ancient gullies that were likely worn down by water flow, although other explanations, such as lava, have been proposed as well.

Now, in addition to glaciers, snowfields and expansive views, Fimmvörðuháls boasts fresh craters and lava flows formed by the volcano's blast.

In a dramatic setting framed by green lawns, blue Pacific Ocean, and black lava rock, your Halii Kai vacation home encourages you to simply go with the flow — from mellow mornings with Kona Coffee to afternoon naps on your lanai to evenings where glorious sunsets melt into a blanket of stars.

Cape Kinau (Kina'u) at La Perouse Bay was formed around 200 years ago by the most recent lava flow from Haleakala volcano.

While boating along the scenic East Hawaii Coastline island treasures to keep an eye out for include 3 unique black sand beaches Kalapana (flowed over in 1989 now reforming), Kehena (formed by 1955 ocean lava flows), & Foxes beach which was flowed over on July 25th 2010.

A lava tube is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava which moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.

An estimated 1,100 to 1,500 people were killed by the volcano, with minor eruptions and lava flow continuing for more than a year after the initial eruption.

Tubes form in one of two ways: either by the crusting over of lava channels, or from pāhoehoe flows where the lava is moving under the surface.

It was probably uplifted not by volcanic activity, but by faulting, many submarine lava flows can be seen on the island.

Disembark on Santiago and be greeted by fresh lava flows veining the waters of Sullivan Bay, as penguins and herons waddle across the cooled volcanic rock in search of fish.

For safety reasons, you won't actually visit the crater, but you will get to see red - hot lava flowing and a few steam baths created by the heat of Pacaya.

It is a volcanic axial zone oriented generally in a northwest - southeast direction, essentially defined by several spatter cones and lava flows and predominantly covered by dense vegetation and pasture - lands.