Sentences with phrase «catastrophic eruption»

Mount Agung's last catastrophic eruption in 1963 created the black - rock beach and the sand on which sits the USS Liberty.

That global warming 66 million years ago was due to catastrophic eruptions in India, which emitted a pulse of CO2 that sent global temperatures soaring by 7 °C (13 °F).

These magmas, however, did not reach the surface to trigger a catastrophic eruption but instead slowly cooled at depth and hardened into plutonic rock.

It was destroyed during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 on August 24th.

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world - changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.

Walk across the moss - covered Elðraun lava field, created by the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Laki in 1783 - 4.

In 1991, a catastrophic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines hurled 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the [continue reading...]