Sentences with phrase «day volcanism»

For example, using the 2010 ACM factor of 135 (Figure 1) to scale up features of present - day volcanism, Kilauea volcano scales up to the equivalent of 135 Kilauea volcanoes; scaling up all active subaerial volcanoes evokes a landscape with the equivalent of about 9500 active present - day volcanoes [Siebert et al., 2010].

Earlier sulfur dioxide spikes in Venus» atmosphere hinted at modern - day volcanism on our neighboring planet.

Not exact matches

Peering through the clouds in infrared «windows» — wavelengths that penetrate the murk — Venus Express also saw surface hot spots that change in temperature from day to day, suggesting active volcanism.

Vulcania, the European Park of Volcanism Saint - Ours - les - Roches, France www.vulcania.com On a clear, windswept day in November, from the top of the Puy de Dôme in the Auvergne region of central France, you feel as if you can see the whole gentle country.

«When we look at the present day, we have a very high fidelity timeline over the last about 500 million years of what's happened on Earth, and we have a pretty good understanding that plate tectonics and volcanism and all these kinds of processes have happened more or less the same way over the last couple of billion years,» says Lindy Elkins - Tanton, director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.