Sentences with phrase «eruption site»
The phrase "eruption site" refers to the location where something, such as a volcano or a skin rash, breaks out or erupts. It's the specific place where this event happens. Full definition
Quartz crystals cover surface rims of eruption sites, so by analyzing them, the researchers were able to determine the rim growth rates times of the volcano based on the concentration of titanium in the crystals.
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So Baker began to visit other eruption sites at various segments of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and saw megaplumes at all of them.
By September 2006, the largest eruption site reached a peak, and enough mud gushed on the surface to fill 72 Olympic - sized swimming pools daily.
Right before any super eruption though, there is one final stage — the decompression stage — characterized by the release of gas bubbles at the eruption site.
«Interestingly, the eruption site and the magma chamber were coupled hydraulically over 45 kilometers,» says Dr. Thomas Walter from the GFZ.
Tremors and seismic shocks at the eruption site propagated to the magma chamber at the other end and vice versa.
«Sonar surveys of the ocean floor in the North Sea (between Britain and continental Europe) have revealed large quantities of methane hydrates and eruption sites,» May and Monaghan wrote in their report, published in the American Journal of Physics.