Sentences with phrase «lava erupted»

Some 100 million km ^ 3 lava erupted, warming the oceans ~ 15K above present temperatures.

A vein of lava erupted from the nearby mines, killing his son and putting him out of business.

Finally, scientists have been able to observe firsthand the formation of hydrothermal vents as lava erupted on the sea floor.

The lava erupted explosively in shallow waters producing large volumes of a glassy pyroclastic rock called hyaloclastite.

The amount of lava erupted to form the Hawaiian - Emperor chain is calculated to be at least 750,000 cubic kilometers - more than enough to blanket the entire State of California with a layer of lava roughly 1.5 km thick.

For two hours, a stream of lava erupted from Mount Tambora, the highest peak in the region, sending a plume of ash eighteen miles into the sky.

Apr. 24, 2013 — Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth's crust.

they say they don't hate god, but their hatred exploded for him like bright, yellow - red burning lava erupting from a volcano.

If you add washing up liquid (dish soap), to your eruption mix the bubbles make the washing up liquid bubble up, giving the appearance of lava erupting from a volcano.

An enormous eruption of the Laki fissure system (a chain of volcanoes in which the lava erupts through a crack in the ground instead of from a single point) in Iceland caused the disruptions.

Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Scanlon found pillow lava formations, similar to those that form on Earth when lava erupts at the bottom of an ocean.

To watch the incredible spectacle of lava erupting from the earth set your compass for the Jaggar Museum and Overlook where you can witness lava flume clouds first hand.

When things warm up and sea levels rise to levels similar to the present, lava erupts more slowly, creating bands of lower topography.

Not exact matches

I didn't want my volcano erupting with lava.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, sending lava shooting into the air in a residential neighborhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for nearby homes.

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?

There's an exit to Pompei, the city buried by lava when the volcano erupted in 79 AD.

It is doubtful that any recent sporting event has so belied its purpose — which was to demonstrate the speed and mobile tenacity of the little six - wheeled craft that can travel over any surface short of an erupting lava flow.

When I erupted, my emotions were the fast moving, liquid lava that freely pours out racing towards the sea.

There is no need to turn your house into an incinerator while taking care of your miniature lava ball on top of the erupting volcano we call Earth just to have a tasty and relatively healthy treat.

Boredom erupting, flowing over into red pooled lava circles.

Around the same time, volcanoes a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava.

A steep lava dome (dark area just left of center) is swelling rapidly inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, next to an older dome that emerged after the volcano erupted in 1980.

The magma inside the volcano did not reach the surface and erupt as a fountain of lava — instead, it was diverted into the continental rift underground.

Most volcanoes erupt beneath the ocean, but scientists know little about them compared to what they know about volcanoes that eject their lava on dry land.

«There are some hints that lava did erupt, but we may not know for sure until we can get out there with a ship.»

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.

Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system, with hundreds of erupting volcanoes blasting fountains of lava up to 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) high.

On Mars, (water reacting with the freshly erupted lavas» that form its basaltic crust, resulted in a sponge - like effect.

Since bursting to life 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in 2013, a massive marine volcano called Nishinoshima has erupted dozens of times, spewing red - hot lava that engulfed a neighboring island.

Lava is magma that has erupted above the planet's surface.

The most - favoured explanation is volcanic eruptions: 252 million years ago, massive volcanoes erupted in Siberia and they continued to belch forth viscous basalt lava and...

«Our model is based on new, high - resolution age data that suggests surface lava flows erupted too early to drive mass extinction.

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.

Rita Cabral of Boston University and colleagues discovered traces of ancient crust in one of the South Pacific's Cook Islands while analyzing lava that erupted 20 million years ago.

The Hawaiian volcano has been constantly erupting over over 37 years and has not one but two active lava lakes.

Because most lava flows erupt and ooze outward, researchers speculate that this hot spot marks a lava lake that is constantly exposed to new lava through breaks in its crust.

Secondly, they showed that the crystals were virtually chemically identical to the lavas in which they erupted.

To answer that question, Grove attempted to retrace a lava deposit's path, from the time it melted inside the planet to the time it ultimately erupted onto Mercury's surface.

And when it erupts, the lava comes out in steady streams, not sudden, dangerous explosions, posing more of a threat to property than life.

The spectacular favourite, at the time of writing, is an asteroid splashing down off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, but there's always the chance that the main rival theory could erupt onto the scene again in a resurgence of lava flows across India's Deccan Traps.

The lava flow from the continuously erupting Kilauea volcano is moving through forested terrain toward the Kaohe Homesteads subdivision, and after a recent tack northward could reach nearby Highway 130 within 16 to 18 days, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory projections.

The vertical columns of Devils Tower, which splay outward near the bottom, match the pattern expected if the formation were indeed the plug in the neck of a funnel - shaped crater filled with a dome of erupted lava.

They discovered Tamu's 120,000 square miles were made of massive lava sheets, up to 75 feet thick, that had erupted from a single summit about 145 million years ago.

The pressure of the ice sheet constrains the lava flow, and glacial meltwater chills the erupting lava into fragments of volcanic glass, forming mounds and ridges with steep sides and flat tops.

A new discovery in the study of how lava dome volcanoes erupt may help in the development of methods to predict how a volcanic eruption will behave, say scientists at the University of Liverpool.

Mount Belinda has begun erupting beneath its thick cover of polar ice, allowing scientists their first chance to examine an Antarctic lava flow in action.

Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the destruction of supercontinents and dramatic changes in climate and ecosystems.

When volcanoes erupt, they can release ash, chunks of rock and torrents of lava.

Io, the innermost of Jupiter's four large «Galilean» moons, is about 2,300 miles across, and, aside from Earth, is the only known place in the solar system with volcanoes erupting extremely hot lava like that seen on Earth.