Sentences with phrase «huge eruption»

It takes a really huge eruption, like Pinatubo, to noticeably affect climate.

We visit the prehistoric Akrotiri — a Bronze Age settlement destroyed by a huge eruption in the 17th century BC, buried under the volcanic ash, preserving the whole city.

On July 29, 1968 at 7:30 a.m. a huge eruption caught the sleepy town of La Fortuna by surprise.

The huge eruption of the Siberian volcanoes and the Permo - Triassic mass extinction occurred at just about the same time.

The source of these magnetic storms was not just one but two huge eruptions of electrically charged material from the Sun, which travelled through space at millions of kilometres an hour, colliding with the Earth's magnetic field.

Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes.

Not exact matches

Such eruptions would be able to cause severe cooling of global temperatures for many years afterwards because of the huge volumes of sulfur and ash erupted.

The twin satellites will create stunning 3 - D pictures of the sun, focusing on the huge magnetic eruptions that spew billions of tons of energetic particles in our direction.

Because of their size those volcanoes do not build up mountains but manifest themselves with their huge carter formed during the eruption — the caldera.

Although the Havre event was larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a similar type of volcano that shot a huge column of debris into the air, the seafloor data weren't indicative of such a large eruption.

From the grisly aftermath of a distant volcanic eruption, to the huge amphitheatre where criminals met their deaths, dig into one of the world's greatest cities

This phenomenon, confusingly called true polar wander, is known to happen on Mars, where huge volcanic eruptions change the planet's weight distribution, but it is controversial whether that could happen on Earth.

Meanwhile, hydrogen sulfide, which would have been released in huge amounts by volcanic eruptions, would have mostly stayed in the atmosphere, as the molecule is relatively insoluble in water, and therefore would not have had regular opportunities to interact with hydrogen cyanide.

Previous episodes of acidification — possibly caused by CO2 released from huge, sustained volcanic eruptions — had a tremendous ecological impact.

Ultimately, he found that, while volcanic eruptions would have spewed huge quantities of both sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere, it was the former that dissolved more easily in shallow waters, producing large concentrations of sulfidic anions, in the form of sulfites and bisulfites.

Every so often, a huge, hot bubble of coronal plasma appears to burst off the sun's surface in an eruption called a coronal mass ejection, or CME.

The deadliest volcanoes on earth are called supervolcanoes, capable of producing cataclysmic eruptions that devastate huge regions, and cause global cooling of the climate.

During peak solar activity, eruptions from the sun spew out huge clouds of plasma that shield Earth from those cosmic rays.

The violent birth of a mega-continent, with huge volcanic eruptions, could help explain the rich diversity of animal life that exists today

Discharge of lava from the eruption at Bárðarbunga volcano released a huge mass — up to 120,000 tonnes per day — of sulphur dioxide gas, which can cause acid rain and respiratory problems.

«There's a huge amount of material that came out from this eruption, possibly larger than at Surtsey,» said Ferrini.

The eruption shows how blazing energy from the centers of galaxies can heat up huge clouds of gas and prevent new stars from forming quickly, he adds.

Nearly 50 per cent of life on Earth died out as a result of huge volcanic eruptions.

His team found a layer of igneous rock in Southwest China, and used the marine fossils to date it to a huge volcanic eruption 260 million years ago.

Huge amounts of CO2 spewed from colossal volcanic eruptions in Siberia may have turned the world's oceans dangerously acidic 252 million years ago, helping to drive a global environmental calamity

Volcanoes can cause global warming because eruptions often spew huge amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

«We typically expect one huge outburst every one or two years, and they're usually not this bright,» said Imke de Pater, professor and chair of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of one of two papers describing the eruptions.

New NASA research suggests some of these zones might not actually be able to support life due to frequent stellar eruptions — which spew huge amounts of stellar material and radiation out into space — from young red dwarf stars.

In Earth's past the trigger for these greenhouse gas emissions was often unusually massive volcanic eruptions known as «Large Igneous Provinces,» with knock - on effects that included huge releases of CO2 and methane from organic - rich sediments.

We extremely love Alexander McQueen's huge cluster of everything rocky and volcanic starting from cuff bracelets and hoop earrings to statement necklaces as if borrowed from a volcanic eruption.

The mountain is so huge, and the destruction so vast, that you still can't believe anyone would be crazy enough to be anywhere near it in the weeks before the eruption.

These huge, eerie tunnels were created by lava draining through the landscape following a massive volcanic eruption thousands of years ago, and you can wander through them.

Day 3: Glacial lagoon, Eldhraun lava field, cosy cottage and Northern Light hunting After a hearty Icelandic breakfast, start the day by driving along the mountain road that crosses Eldhraun, a huge lava field from an eruption in the 18th century.

Based on volcanology data, the volcano's eruption was quite huge, with an amplitude level of 52 dB and a volcanic ash altitude of more than 2,000 meters above the crater,» said NTB Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) head Muhammad Rum on Tuesday.

Arif, who is also the chairman of INACA, further explained that this achievement came when the airline industry is facing huge challenges, from a sluggish economy to a number of «force majeures» or natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions and haze.

On the 29th of July in 1968 there was huge volcanic eruption.

It is a vast mountain; an eruption of massive proportions blew off its top leaving a huge caldera in which three peaks are located.

Previously on land, the Liberty was pushed underwater by the eruption's force, which also created huge trenches of volcanic rock on the seabed.

Yellowstone is situated atop a huge volcanic basin (a crater or caldera) that was created over 630,000 years ago during the last major volcanic eruption.

Mt. Batur status is still active, the first documented eruption in 1804 and the last eruption with huge lava in 1974.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky will take place one year before the original game, at the time when a huge anomalous eruption completely changed what has been known as «the Zone».

That's a huge dip about 2020... did you factor in a supervolcno eruption to get that amount of cooling?

The natural variations contain a large random component, depending on the specific variation — for example, a huge volcanic eruption six months from now would require new short - term climate predictions (but the long - term forecast would remain unchanged).

That's so easily disproved it's ridiculous — look at the CO2 data, where's the huge «spike» following the Mt. St. Helens eruption?

I've sometimes thought that global cataclysms like the largest volcanic eruptions would disrupt the glacial records by many years, like Oruanui eruption c. 26500bp, as these would induce unrecorded behavior in weather and other things, f.e. the huge ash deposits might decrease the albedo so much a local melting event happens.

When a group of people claiming superior scientific knowledge and understanding refuses to grasp the extremely simple point I've been making regarding the heating capacity of an absence of volcanic eruptions, then I am forced to take all their other arguments with a huge grain of salt.

It revealed that, over the past 7,000 years, a number of huge, highly explosive eruptions had occurred.

For example, painters in Europe produced works showing a change in sky colors following the 1815 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Tambora, which belched huge volumes gas and ash, scattered sunlight in the atmosphere and producing brilliant orange and red sunsets around for world for a period of 3 years.

The sulfate plot intrigued me, especially that huge spike roughly around 1300 A.D. I did some seeking and found some references to volcanic eruptions that would have produced such spikes.

Unless you are predicting huge volcanic eruptions or the abrupt cessation of CO2 emissions in the ear term?