Sentences with phrase «last eruption of this volcano»

Though the world's flight hubs are now thrumming with activity as frantic efforts take place to undo the damage caused by the delays seen over the past week, the disruption may not be merely temporary as the lessons of history foretell the potential for greater disruption to air transport: the last eruption of this volcano continued sporadically from 1821 to 1823.

Not exact matches

«The astonishing result was that the ages of the zircons measured from all five of the smaller volcanoes extended continuously from the time of the eruption 75,000 years ago back to the last supervolcanic eruption.»

THE eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland shut down air travel across much of Europe for five days last year, and Grímsvötn has just threatened a repeat performance.

This morning you'll visit Mount St. Helens, where our expert state park guides provide a detailed account of the volcano's last major eruption in 1980.

Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano, buried under the giant Vatnajökull glacier, has been holding scientists in suspense over the last 2 weeks, producing frequent seismic rumbles but no signs yet of an actual eruption.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.

The Galápagos Islands are home to some of the most active volcanoes in the world, with more than 50 eruptions in the last 200 years.

The last of these, started on 27 October 2002, is still in progress and can be considered one of the most explosive eruptions of the volcano in recent times.

Glass compositions of the YTT (open squares) are clearly distinct from tephra of the Rungwe Volcanic Province (26) and of the Olkaria (27) and Eburru (28) volcanoes, Kenya, which have produced rhyolitic eruptions during the last 150 ka..

Sitting right on the edge of the pacific ring of fire, New Zealand also has a number of still active volcanoes, with the last eruption in 2012.

The volcano's last violent activity in 1991 was the 2nd largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century, and has created a magnificent crater lake as well as altering the entire landscape.

We start our Costa Rican activity package with a world class zipline canopy tour that includes rappelling, rock climbing, and swings through an impressive canyon formed by the lava flows of the last great eruption of the Rincon de la Vieja Volcano.

The last significant volcanic eruption, the Capelinhos volcano (Vulcão dos Capelinhos), occurred off the coast of the island of Faial in 1957; the most recent volcanic activity occurred in the seamounts and submarine volcanoes off the coast of Serreta and in the Pico - São Jorge Channel.

The alert level for the volcano that had forced more than 100,000 residents to flee was lowered late last month, from the highest level to the third highest level, although authorities said there was still a chance of eruption.

Since last week, Mount Agung volcano has been showing signs of possible eruption, spewing clouds of dark gray ash and with lava seen welling up in its crater.

Based on the activity that preceded the last eruptions of Mt Agung in 1963, there is growing concern that the volcano might experience a major eruption in the near future.

The journey brings you into what is often referred to as «the world's most beautiful caldera» for a drive through the rugged rocky terrain and mysterious lunar - like landscape of the black lava fields of the volcano, a remnant of the last major eruption.

I got stuck cos of the Icelandic volcano eruption last year at Stansted airport for a week without clothes and money!

Irazu Volcano is notable for its explosive eruptions, the last of which was in 1960's.

The last recorded eruption of Arenal Volcano was on May 5th - 7th, 1998, where sections of the northwest wall of the remaining crater fell apart.

The last significant eruption was in 1866 but Turrialba Volcano continues to be active with plenty of smoke and gas activity noticeable from its highest peak and the nearby fumaroles

The protagonists of The Empirical Effect (2009) are residents of the «red zone» around Vesuvius who survived the volcano's last eruption in 1944.

Stromboli, a single channel 30 minute video, is named for the island south of Sicily that is the only permanently active volcano in Europe and has experienced small eruptions approximately every 15 minutes for the last 2000 years.

The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.

According to one of Japan's leading volcano experts, Shigeo Aramaki, in the last 2,200 years Fuji has erupted 75 times, giving an average 30 - year interval between eruptions.

Although the global disruption of last month's massive eruption has faded, smaller ash plumes snarled air services intermittently over the last week all the way to Turkey — more than 2,500 miles (4,100 kilometers) from the Eyjafjallajokul (pronounced ay - yah - FYAH - lah - yer - kuhl) volcano.

(b) over the last 200 million years there have been asteroid impacts, brightenings and darkenings of the sun, and massive volcano eruptions, but the Earth's environment has always returned to a slow oscillation around a moderate middle point.

Over the last millennium the agreement between the tree - ring data and volcano / ice - core data is high: years of ring - width minima can be matched with known volcanic eruptions or ice - core volcanic signals in 86 % of cases.