Sentences with phrase «filled crater»

Once circular, it was known as Strongili, «the Round One», but some 3,600 years ago, at the height of the ancient Minoan civilization, a mighty volcanic eruption caused the centre of Strongili to sink, leaving a water - filled crater — Santorini's famous caldera.

The fortress - like Seongsan Ilchulbong tuff cone, with its walls rising out of the ocean, is a dramatic landscape feature, and Mount Halla, with its array of textures and colours through the changing seasons, waterfalls, display of multi-shaped rock formations and columnar - jointed cliffs, and the towering summit with its lake - filled crater, further adds to the scenic and aesthetic appeal.

Return to the mainland and travel to the town of Masaya, home to a bustling open - air handicrafts market, followed by a visit to the active Masaya Volcano, where you can peer over the edge of a lava - filled crater.

The minerals could not have been formed in a local event, such as an impact into an ice - filled crater.

After the blast, they believe, a flat dome of lava filled the crater.

By studying the distribution and features of the post-impact ocean deposits and fragmented rock that filled the crater, Andrew J. Retzler of Idaho State University and colleagues present a new map characterizing the size and shape of the Alamo crater.

Fill the crater with the cherry whipped cream, piling the cream mixture on top.

Methane ice crept up from Pluto's subsurface ocean to fill the crater.

Lava flows three billion or four billion years ago, for instance, flooded lunar plains and filled craters there, whereas large impacts excavated vast amounts of lunar material that fell to the surface, burying or obscuring nearby craters.

The clays and by - products of reactions between water and sulfuric acid (a.k.a. sulfates) that fill the crater are evidence that it once held a lake that dried up early in the planet's history.

In some areas patches of smooth lava can be seen filling craters.

When The Hunger Games crashed onto our screens back in 2012, it spared no time in seizing its audience, quickly becoming an overnight phenomenon whilst filling the crater in the market left by Twilights departure, and thus, spawned an incredibly lucrative new franchise, thanks to an astute marketing campaign, and of course, Suzanne Collins» much revered best selling trilogy of novels.

The lake fills the crater of the inactive volcano Mount Catur.

Samus even endures health - depleting heat in lava - filled craters for a good while before she is given permission to activate the heat - resistant capabilities of her suit.

Not exact matches

The high degree of uncertainty and chaos in today's marketplaces makes a presumed understanding one that can be filled with many craters.

When you flip the pancake onto a plate, you will see that the cinnamon filling has created a crater - swirl of cinnamon.

Mine were not soft and fluffy because the cinnamon filling sunk in the pancake batter and made swirls of craters on pancakes.

Devers mostly needs to concern himself with just filling in that crater a little bit so if something that was going right in the first half starts to go wrong, Boston isn't stuck with two gaping holes.

The map also shows that some small impact craters up to 2,000 kilometers from Orientale have been filled in with plains material.

Some smaller impact craters appear filled in with the material, potentially reshaping our understanding of the moon's history.

Make a stop at Mercury, which boasts the only known craters with wrinkled crusts and cracked fillings.

Key to the basin's identification as a potential impact crater are the decrease in the strength of Earth's gravity over the site, indicating a large basin filled with younger low - density sediments, and a strong increase in the strength of Earth's magnetism at the site.

But the youngest of the many craters you can see from the Puy de Dôme — some softened by woods or meadows, some filled with lakes — erupted just 6,000 years ago, a blink of the geologic eye.

Scientists have explained Sputnik Planitia's youthful appearance by positing that it is an ancient impact basin — a giant crater filled with thick floes of younger ice that, driven by heat seeping up from below, churn and refresh the surface.

The mountain's sides are layered, suggesting they are sediment deposited when the crater filled with water.

The idea that Lake Cheko might fill an impact crater became more attractive to us.

Indeed, a paper by co-author John Sutherland — a chemist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K. — suggests that all the basic chemicals for life can be cooked up in a water - filled impact crater.

That suggests the shallow crater had been filled with an estimated 15,000 square kilometres of lava.

The upcoming visual exploration of Pluto will fill in knowledge gaps, possibly revealing craters or ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet.

«The chevrons in Madagascar associated with the crater were filled with melted microfossils from the bottom of the ocean.

The crater was filled - in with fragmented rock, and later with more typical ocean deposits, as the energy from the impact lessened and the environment returned to normal.

«The wet sediment slumps back into the crater and basically fills it in, so you get a pretty flat crater even to start with,» says Neish.

The high - manganese materials it found are in mineral - filled cracks in sandstones in the «Kimberley» region of the crater.

Peter: (laughs) We had figured out a way that was very important to understand how craters form when the projectile deforms a great deal; so the best way was [to] take an egg, fill ed it up with plaster of paris, and then you just use the yolk and cook them to different degrees.

Although no very ancient terrestrial impact structures are preserved, the Sudbury basin provides a unique opportunity to study the sediment that filled the basin as a guide to what the earlier impact craters would have looked like.

Qiang Wei at Peking University in China and his colleagues calculated that nitrogen ice, which is softer than water ice, on Pluto's plains may flow like molasses to fill in craters as they form.

This view of 1,000 - mile - wide Caloris basin — among the largest known asteroid impacts in the solar system — shows how lava (orange) filled the blast site before new craters excavated the original basin (purple).

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

The vertical columns of Devils Tower, which splay outward near the bottom, match the pattern expected if the formation were indeed the plug in the neck of a funnel - shaped crater filled with a dome of erupted lava.

NASA's Messenger spacecraft flew past the planet three times, revealing craters filled with unidentified bright stuff, before settling into orbit in March 2011.

On Tuesday, the team successfully executed the last of seven daring orbit correction maneuvers that kept MESSENGER aloft long enough for the spacecraft's instruments to collect critical information on Mercury's crustal magnetic anomalies and ice - filled polar craters, among other features.

The white feature is eroded crater fill, but exactly how it was formed has not been satisfactorily explained.

The lava filled floor is quite fascinating as it means the crater doesn't have the characteristic mountains that many other large craters have at the centre.

Study authors write that some views of Occator appear to show a diffuse haze near the surface that fills the floor of the crater.

The smoothness is because the crater floor was filled with lava shortly after impact.

u ``... great craters appear to have been filled to overflowing by rain on early Mars.»

Although a small correction, it was enough that — projected to one week later when the collision would otherwise have occurred — MAVEN would miss the lumpy, crater - filled moon by about 2.5 minutes.

This crater is so large that, if Earth had one proportionately as large as Vesta's, it would fill the Pacific Ocean.

If Enceladus were actually liquid, there would be no craters; liquid would flow in to fill the hole.

Most of the situations are poorly staged and way over-the-top, and the story is filled with crater - sized plot holes and numerous continuity errors.