Sentences with phrase «calderas which»

The main town of Thira lies on the rim of the caldera which is around 300 metres above the sea and drops below it for another 200 metres.

There are not many surf camps in Playa Dona Ana and most surfers opt to choose camps located in Jaco and Caldera which are renowned surf destinations.

Not exact matches

Examining the volcanic features within the caldera required high - resolution imaging, which the researchers obtained from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The four extinct volcanoes in the cluster are calderas, which form after a volcano erupts and the land around them collapses, forming a crater.

They took measurements of magma - filled fractures (dykes) which are exposed in impressive form along the northern wall of the Santorini caldera.

Their concern is based on three eruptions: a gigantic caldera - forming blast that occurred in the region 2.1 million years ago, another that followed 700,000 years later, and a third 700,000 years after that (which might mean that this old faithful is ready to blow right around now).

This animation shows the summit caldera of Olympus Mons which is 24 kilometers (15 miles) above the surrounding plains.

This swaps HCl for greenhouse gases, conflates Mt St. Helens with St Augustine in her text (which in any case should have been the Long Valley Caldera)...

(which I assume is intended to be read by someone with technical knowledge of climate modeling jargon) is that I've started wondering about how climate models handle volcanoes or geology like the Yellowstone caldera — regularly emitting «point sources» that transfer their climate effects globally.

The first winner I tried was the Caldera Dress ($ 128), which comes in three intensely different patterns.

Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera joined U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and retired Army Gen. Colin Powell at the Pentagon Feb. 3 to unveil the «GED Plus» program, which will be offered to new recruits through Sept. 30, 2003.

This U.S. debut also marks the first time we've seen the Project 7 in white, which will be one of two standard colors offered for this limited - run sports car along with French Racing Blue — British Racing Green, Ultimate Black, and Caldera Red colors are also offered as optional upgrades.

Paint choices are limited to Ultra Blue, Caldera Red, and British Racing Green, which come with white stripes and stickers; and Ultimate Black and Glacier White, which are offered with gray decals.

Los Alamos is neighbored by the San Ildefonso Pueblo and the Jemez Mountains, which includes Valles Caldera National Park, Bandelier National Monument, and parts of the Santa Fe National Forest.

Located in the beautiful setting of Imerovigli in the northwest of the island, high above the Caldera, the Santorini Grace is the perfect vantage point from which to view the famed Santorini sunsets that envelop the Aegean Sea, and the Cyclades Islands.

Ulun Danu Beratan Temple mostly called as a Ulun Danu Temple but not to be confused with Ulun Danu Batur Temple, which is on the rim of the caldera at Batur Lake.

The Sete Cidades Volcano at the center of the Massif consists of a caldera and a polygenetic volcanic field within it, that includes four lakes (two of which Lagoa Azul, the Blue Lake, and Lagoa Verde, the Green Lake, are linked).

The Taal Lake, covering an area of 243 sq. kms, partially covers the Taal Caldera, which has been formed by the powerful prehistoric eruptions of the volcano.

The area of north - eastern Bali at the Mount Batur caldera, and which encompasses Penelokan, Toya Bungkah, Batur and Kintamani villages, is known widely as just Kintamani.

Local area Situated about 200 km from mainland Greece, Santorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea created from a volcanic eruption which resulted in the current geological caldera: a giant lagoon surrounded by steep cliffs and hills.

Easily accessible by foot is Caldera Beach and further afield is Balos, Kamari and Red Beach or Perivolos which offers water sport activities and a selection of beach bars.

When the Batur Volcano destroyed the temple only the holiest shrine survived which was moved up to the rim of the caldera.

The inside 7.5 wide caldera, which was organized in the midst of emplacement of the Bali (or Ubud) ignimbrite, has been dated at around 23,670 and 28,500 years back.

The tour takes you to World Heritage listed Springbrook National Park and Lamington National Park which are located at the largest caldera in the Southern Hemisphere.

It is a vast mountain; an eruption of massive proportions blew off its top leaving a huge caldera in which three peaks are located.

Traversing the Northern circuit normally include exploring the Spectacular Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro crater (considered as the eight natural wonder of the World) which is the only existing unbroken caldera in the world and the stunning rift Valley escarpment.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

Devastating eruptions like the ones which carved out the caldera take place on average every few thousand years.

One theory of many behind the solar / volcanic connection is that MUONS, a by product of galactic cosmic rays can affect the calderas of certain volcanoes by changing the chemical composition of the matter within the silica rich magma creating aerosols which increase pressure in the magma chamber and hence lead to an explosive eruption.

Yellowstone's caldera, which covers a 25 - by 37 - mile (40 - by 60 - kilometer) area of Wyoming, is an ancient crater formed after the last big blast, some 640,000 years ago.

The Santa Clara operation was an independent Unix company until it was bought by Linux company Caldera, which promptly declared war on Linux, and later went bankrupt.