Sentences with phrase «in the volcano at»

The gases escape through cracks in the volcano at high pressure and temperatures up to 600 degrees Celsius.

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From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

A rush of moving magma on Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has triggered hundreds of earthquakes in recent days and caused the crater floor at Puu Oo to collapse.

The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

If billions of people tell me not to put my house at the base of a volcano, and I tell them «I don't believe in volcanoes» and after 70 years it erupts, do I deserve to be burned by that lava?

All the forces of nature that we used to call «acts of God» have become, at least in part, acts of humankind (excepting volcanoes and earthquakes — though scientists this winter announced that lurching ice had more than doubled the number of earthquakes under Greenland).

Founder and frontman Justin Vernon (also of Volcano Choir) tweeted earlier today that Bon Iver perform new material at Eaux Claires Festival this August 12 - 13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

At the foot of our Paragon Vineyard lies Islay Hill, the last extinct volcano in a string known as the «Nine Sisters» stretching from Morro Bay to our estate.

After an evening of relaxation at the Tilajari Hotel Resort, within sight of the highly active Arenal Volcano, we continued our journey north, and Stuart and Cody explained how they started growing Habaneros in Costa Rica.

There is a volcanic crater lake up there — one that until pretty recently people used as a giant natural hot tub, at least until seismic activity intensified and folks realized that swimming in a volcano's simmering crater lake might not be the best idea.

If you are in need of some retail therapy because the children are driving you insane, there is some shopping, but not too much at Volcano Bay.

You could even add: AD, Oke's pick, is at best a sleeping volcano, much potentially stronger, in the Yoruba South West, than an LP would ever be.

Although other researchers had noticed a sulfuric signal in the ice layer below Tambora's, Cole - Dai was the first to announce that it belonged to an 1809 volcano, and what's more, to a massive volcano that nobody at the time had reported.

He also believes such a phenomenon could also explain changes at other volcanic sites across the world including the similarly iconic Stromboli, just off the north coast of Sicily, and even the volcano on Montserrat in the Caribbean.

A study by Iain Stewart, Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth, explores changes in the volcano's structures which began around 130,000 years ago.

The best documented, most data - rich volcano in history, Pinatubo became a «calibration point» for the behavior of earlier volcanoes, says Jihong Cole - Dai, a professor at South Dakota State University.

The eruption at the Puyehue - Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex, a chain of volcanoes in Chile, spewed ash clouds up to 45,000 feet into the air in early June.

«We've found by studying these crystals in a specific volcano that, when new magma arrives at depth, up to 90 per cent of the time it can trigger an eruption, and within only two weeks.»

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Located in the eastern region of Uganda, Bududa lies at the foot of the slopes of the Mount Elgon volcano, which provides a unique set of natural resources that make it an optimal place for cultivation of Arabica beans.

The features would be the first large ice volcanoes in the solar system, says Jeff Moore, a New Horizons scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, though the team is not yet willing to say the discovery is definite.

Benjamin Edwards, a geologist at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn., has explored scores of volcanoes in British Columbia, Iceland, South America and Russia.

Through an arrangement facilitated by two nongovernmental organizations in North Korea and China with help from journalist Richard Stone at Science, Hammond and his colleague Clive Oppenheimer became the first Western scientists to visit the DPRK's volcano observatory, and a historic partnership was launched.

For geologists like James Hammond, a research fellow at Imperial College London and a co-panelist with Pastrana in the session on science and political strain, some of the most interesting volcanoes lie in countries that are in conflict with their neighbors or the international community.

In fact, lava emerging from hotspot volcanoes is known to differ chemically and isotopically from lava from other volcanoes, such as those erupting at subduction zones where Earth's crust dives into the upper mantle.

After a week of rumbling, Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano began erupting yesterday, say scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) in Reykjavik — although the eruption remained entirely under the thick ice covering the volcano.

The HAWC Observatory sits at an elevation of 13,500 feet, flanking the Sierra Negra volcano inside Pico de Orizaba National Park in the Mexican state of Puebla.

At their peak about 150 million years ago, the vents in the Arsia Mons» caldera probably collectively produced about 1 to 8 cubic kilometers of magma every million years, slowly adding to the volcano's size.

Jeff Johnson, a volcanologist at Boise State University in Idaho, is using this method to help read activity at the Villarrica volcano in Chile.

«For each volcano, there's a critical overpressure value,» says Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a PhD fellow at the Institute of Earth Science in France.

Indonesia, the site of the biggest eruption ever recorded — Mount Tambora in 1815 — is most at risk, with about 78 historically active volcanoes.

Meanwhile, on the ground, earth scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy are taking aim at the volcano with spectrometers, which measure the types and amounts of gases spewing from its mouth.

In this case, Johnson theorizes that a buildup of gases destabilized the volcano, reinforcing the need to monitor multiple phenomena at once, including seismic activity, gas flow and heat.

Butler argues that the dust covering the larger Stealth region was blown from volcanoes in a region called the Tharsis Ridge, which lies at the eastern edge of the feature.

Authorities have been on alert since increased movement at Iceland's largest volcano system this month triggered memories of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in 2010 that shut down much of Europe's airspace for six days.

«In many cases,» Collings said, «the existence of liquid crystal phases raises the viscosity and lowers the speed material moves at, so the final shape looks like a volcano or sunken souffle.»

Dr Juliet Biggs and colleagues in the School of Earth Sciences, with collaborators from Cornell, Oxford and Southern Methodist University, looked at the archive of satellite data covering over 500 volcanoes worldwide, many of which have been systematically observed for over 18 years.

Co-author Professor Willy Aspinall added: «Global studies of volcano deformation using satellite data will increasingly play a part in assessing eruption potential at more and more volcanoes, especially in regions with short historical records or limited conventional monitoring.»

As the model helps explain, a volcano can form inland if the slab subducts at a shallower angle, and a hole in the shallow slab allows for a special type of magma to form by melting of the crust.

Intense seismic activity at Iceland's largest volcano system has raised worries that an eruption could cause another ash cloud like that from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in 2010 that shut down much of Europe's airspace for six days.

The quiverings underneath the volcano were detected at the Geophysical Institute in Quito, Ecuador, in March.

While most of the activity they've seen has been linked to the more than 160 volcanoes previously identified by camera - laden probes either orbiting or whizzing past Jupiter, the telescopes have identified volcanism in one region that had never experienced it before, the team reports today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Reno, Nevada.

Researchers taking measurements in an urban environment using standard electric power might be expected to get hundreds or even thousands of data measurements; at high altitude on a volcano, says Mather, tens or less may be considered reasonable.

The city of Tauranga, with more than 100,000 residents, lies about 50 kilometres west of the uplift.Elaine Smid, a volcanologist at the University of Auckland, notes that people in the area are already at risk from volcanic hazards, especially ashfall from the Taupo volcanoes.

At around 70,000 feet, the peak stands more than twice as tall as Mount Everest and is rivaled in the solar system only by Mars's monster volcano, Olympus Mons.

ASU professor Christy Till strives to better understand the potential for future eruptions at Yellowstone volcano by studying those in the recent past.

Boetius and her colleagues have found the consortium in 20 or so other places around the world — everywhere they have looked, including a mud volcano in the Arctic Ocean, and at cold seeps and hydrate mounds in the Gulf of Mexico.

If she's wrong, say her detractors, her crusade is drawing focus away from investigators looking at other, more likely scenarios, such as the eruption of hundreds of volcanoes in prehistoric Siberia.

«At the time this thing formed, it was in the middle of a basin that was nowhere near a subduction zone — it was nowhere near the kind of geologic activity that would cause a volcano to form.»

Fishermen still make offerings at the volcano for a good catch and hunters still fan across its forested skirt in search of prey.