Sentences with phrase «formed by volcanic eruptions»

Hawaii, the chain of islands formed by volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago, was the last state to enter the Union in 1959.

The Galápagos islands were formed by volcanic eruptions, and form a habitat for an unusual variety of animals.

They are located 200 km south of Ras Mohammed and are basically steep - sided cones, likely formed by volcanic eruptions.

Along with Santa Barbara Island, Anacapa was formed by volcanic eruptions between 19 and 15 million years ago.

The Giant's Causeway, located on the County Antrim coast in Northern Ireland, includes spectacular basalt columns which were formed by volcanic eruptions up to 60 million years ago.

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Igneous rocks are formed by the cooling of magma (molten rock) which makes its way to Earth's surface, often leading to volcanic eruptions.

Lonsdaleite forms only under the extreme pressure and heat accompanying meteorite impacts, while wurtzite boron nitride is a by - product of intense volcanic eruption.

Since the 1990s, scientists have been discussing using aircraft to inject aerosols, such as sulfates, into the atmosphere as a form of geoengineering to mimic volcanic eruptions that sometimes cool the planet by casting shades of particulate matter.

Around 4 billion years ago, Earth was an inhospitable place, devoid of oxygen, bursting with volcanic eruptions, and bombarded by asteroids, with no signs of life in even the simplest forms.

Pore spaces that shelter subsurface microbes areconstricted to the vanishing point in metamorphic rocks buried over eons byfurther sedimentation, volcanic eruptions, or massive folding of Earth's crust.And dense crystalline material formed by melting — basic igneous rock — offerslittle housing or dining.

Exquisite telescopic photographs of the lunar surface had existed for decades before the Apollo missions to the Moon, but they did not resolve the controversy of the origin of lunar craters were they formed by meteorite impact or by volcanic eruption?

Once the ice melted, driven by a runaway greenhouse effect caused by volcanic eruptions, it formed a freshwater layer up to 2 kilometres thick.

These had been hinted at last year, when Alex Evans at the University of Arizona and colleagues used GRAIL maps to find evidence of more than 100 craters buried beneath seas of basalt formed by ancient volcanic eruptions.

The research team led by Dr. Jin - Young Lee confirmed in results from radiocarbon dating for carbonized wood (charcoal) found below the basaltic layer located in Sangchang - ri, Seogwipo - si, Jeju - do it dated back to 5,000 years ago; which means the time when the basalt on the upper layer was formed took place relatively recently, i.e. 5,000 years ago, and which demonstrates that the island has experienced a volcanic eruption fairly recently.

It was formed by a gigantic volcanic eruption that cooled the planet.

The team determined that the basalts from Baffin Island, formed by a 60 - million - year - old eruption from the mantle hot - spot currently located beneath Iceland, and the Ontong - Java Plateau, which was formed by an enormous volcanic event about 120 million years ago, contain slightly more tungsten - 182 than other young volcanic rocks.

This page outlines a map of assessment through the unit, including skill based questions, short writing responses and extended writing responses including essays.Mechanisms of plate movement including internal heating, convection currents, plumes, subduction and rifting at plate marginsCharacteristics of volcanoes (shield, composite and cinder) formed by varying types of volcanic eruption; and associated secondary hazards...

This new Tongan island is the first of its type to be formed from the ash of a 2014 volcanic eruption in the south Pacific and could exist for decades, according to a study released by Nasa

Lake Toba (Danau Toba in Indonesian) is the largest volcanic lake in the world, formed by a cataclysmic eruption around 70,000 years ago.

The two pyramidal cones, covered with thick tropical vegetation, were formed by lava from a volcanic eruption 30 to 40 million years ago.

Immense flood basalts were accompanied by pyroclastic eruptions and together produced the Siberian Traps, an area of 2 million square kilometers of volcanic rock, which formed suddenly, on the Earth's surface.

Contribution of volcanic eruptions: big volcanic eruptions emit great quantities of SO2 (sulfur dioxide) that form with water vapor sulfate droplets that are lifted by the eruptive column to the stratosphere where they are carried by winds all over the world.