Sentences with phrase «from caldera»

Making the not so dumb assumption that winds move the CO2 from the caldera west up onto the mountain the case for CO2 fertilization looks pretty strong.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

Visit beautiful Tortuga Island on board of a catamaran that departs from Caldera 45 minutes from Los Sueños.

Climb to the top of a sacred volcano and experience the sun rising over the mountainside while basking in the steam that rises out from the caldera.

Playa Bajamar is a secluded beach found a few kilometers away from Caldera.

This hotel enjoys a stunning setting in Akrotiri, lying just 300 metres from Caldera Beach.

Our cinematic adventure on the high seas began on February 7th when we set sail from Caldera, Costa Rica, steamed through the Panama Canal and made stops in St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Maarten and Grand Turk.

The Yellowstone Association offers year - round field courses on topics ranging from calderas and climate change to wolves and wildflowers.

Not exact matches

It's as if we had spent these endless grueling hours hiking a vertical volcanic summit to the cone, and now, just three steps from viewing the ring fault of the caldera, he says, «I'm gonna take a nap.

The current unrest is consistent with a reactivation of the magmatic system after 412 years and, hence, with an increase in the threat from volcanic activity to the caldera's population of almost 360,000 people, as well as to the three million residents of Naples immediately outside its eastern margin.

Although the agency effort ensures visitors will find healthy options, it has remained true to visitors who enjoy its «iconic and unique» and sought - out menu items from classic fried chicken at the entrance to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to the «Caldera» chocolate truffle tort at Yellowstone National Park.

Among his collection are an extremely rare pair of Adam And Eve sauces from CaJohn's Fiery Foods and one of his «prized» items is two bottles of Blair's Calderas (caldera means «volcanic cauldron») that are incredibly hard to find.

Here we are not dealing with large volcanic eruptions of the size of Pinatubo of Mount St. Helens, here we are talking about extreme events: The Toba caldera in the Sumatra subduction zone in Indonesia originated from one of the largest volcanic eruption in recent Earth history, about 74,000 years ago.

Examining the volcanic features within the caldera required high - resolution imaging, which the researchers obtained from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Another robot, operated remotely from a ship, allowed the team to get a closer look at specific features in and around the caldera, and to take rock and water samples.

The tremendous amount of magma that was ejected from Mt. Aso millions of years ago caused the surface of the volcano to cave in, leaving behind the world's largest above - ground active caldera — the circumference of the caldera is around 80 miles.

To better understand the cycle of magma production, the researchers analyzed oxygen isotope ratios in quartz and zircon, water - and heat - resistant minerals, from volcanic rocks in the Yellowstone caldera.

De Natale said that information obtained from sensors placed inside the wells will help to understand the «bradyseism» — the rising and falling of Earth's surface resulting from the movement of magma inside a caldera — occurring in the Campi Flegrei area and to find out whether there is a connection between this phenomenon and volcanic eruptions.

From August 2014 to February 2015, the Bárdabunga caldera was formed in the centre of Iceland.

The composition of this lava dome is different from the magma that caused the giant caldera to erupt — it shows the same chemical characteristics as the current post-caldera volcano on the nearby Satsuma Iwo - jima Island.

The caldera, the cauldron - like crater at the top of a volcano, had sunk by up to around 20 meters since last week as magma channeled through underground passages moves away from the volcano, Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, geophysics professor at the University of Iceland, told public service broadcaster RUV.

«There has been a longstanding debate among volcanologists about the orientation of ring faults beneath calderas: Do they slope toward or away from the center of the caldera?»

Heat flowing from a 25 - kilometer - long stripe within Tvashtar's caldera was so intense that it blinded part of the camera's electronic detector and created a white blotch.

The caldera of Tupan Patera, named after a Brazilian thunder god, reveals itself to be a strange and dangerous place, replete with hot black lava, warm red sulfur deposits likely deposited from vented gas, and hilly yellow terrain also high in sulfur.

«That's not crazy levels of enrichment, but since there was this big hole in the ground and you had 200,000 to 300,000 years, that lithium was progressively leached from the nearby rock by rainwater and deposited in the caldera lake sediments.»

Choose from three body colors, Santorini Black, Yulong White and — unique to First Edition — Caldera Red.

Caldera offers monthlong residencies from January to March to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Caldera Arts Center, located on 120 acres in the Central Cascades, 17 miles west of Sisters, Oregon.

If, however, trekking to the top of a volcano isn't for you, take a tour and and enjoy a meal from one of the many restaurants in the area where Mount Batur and its caldera will provide a spectacular back drop to your meal.

From dormant volcanoes and caldera hiking to geothermal hot spring hopping.

Bromo: The main reason most people visit Bromo is to witness sunrise over the moon - like Tengger Caldera from a nearby mountain, Gunung Penanjakan.

If trekking is not your thing, a visit to Air Kalak hot springs — a short distance from the main caldera campsite — will give you a taste of the mountain.

Located in the beautiful setting of Imerovigli in the northwest of the island, high above the Caldera, the Santorini Grace is the perfect vantage point from which to view the famed Santorini sunsets that envelop the Aegean Sea, and the Cyclades Islands.

In December, Wind Star sails a 14 - day Panama Canal cruise followed by a 7 - day Costa Rica cruise roundtrip from Puerto Caldera.

The 148 - guest Wind Star starts its 2011 season with 7 - day Costa Rica cruises roundtrip from Puerto Caldera.

* Seven - day sailings on Wind Star from Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica to Colon, Panama depart December 31, 2011 & February 4, 2012, and visit Bahia Drake, Costa Rica; Golfito, Costa Rica; Isla de Cobia, Panama; Panama Canal Transit; and San Blas Islands, Panama.

* Seven - day sailings on Wind Star from Colon, Panama to Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica depart January 7 and February 11, 2012, and visit San Blas Islands, Panama; Panama Canal Transit; Isla de Cobia, Panama; Golfito, Costa Rica; Bahia Drake.

From January through March 2012, Wind Star will operate four new 7 - day Costa Rica itineraries that feature a Panama Canal transit along with 7 - day roundtrip Puerto Caldera cruises.

The black, shiny obsidian field is easily accessible from good roads within the caldera, or a trail that traverses the flow.

Eruptive material from Pico Viejo, Montaña Teide and Montaña Blanca partially fills the Las Cañadas caldera.

View the smoldering caldera from the 11 - mile drive around its crater rim; on a wilderness hike; or from the large picture windows of Volcano House, one of Hawaii's most iconic hotels.

The last eruption within the Las Cañadas caldera occurred in 1798 from the Narices del Teide or Chahorra (Teide's Nostrils) on the western flank of Pico Viejo.

[5] Rather, they can be formed by a lava explosion from a bottled up volcano, (the explosion leaving a shallow caldera), or the ceiling over a void may not be solid enough to prevent the collapse of the overlying material.

From San Jose, drive to Caldera in the new freeway, then to Puntarenas.

The Picos Region extends from the shadow of the ancient volcano of the Água de Pau Massif (known locally for the lake that rests within its volcanic crater: Lagoa do Fogo) until the area around the Sete Cidades caldera.

With its white villages atop lava rock cliffs and blue - domed churches overlooking a sunken caldera, this postcard - perfect Aegean island feels a thousand miles from modern civilization.

The steep walls provide shelter from the wind and ocean swells once inside the dormant caldera.

Hiking the Caldera Trail from Fira to Oia in Santorini is by far the best way to enjoy the striking beauty of this small volcanic island.

There are six main routes of travel to the caldera that can be attained from Denpasar and one route from Singaraja.

Caldera is situated only a short distance away from Puntarenas and its larger towns.

Local area Situated about 200 km from mainland Greece, Santorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea created from a volcanic eruption which resulted in the current geological caldera: a giant lagoon surrounded by steep cliffs and hills.