Sentences with phrase «lava tube wall»

«The initial specimens included skeletons embedded in crystals on the lava tube wall and thus were likely very old,» Howarth said.

[26] The lava tube is remarkable for its length and for the number of well - preserved lava cave features, such as lava stalactites and curbs, the latter marking high stands of the flowing lava frozen on the lava tube walls.

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This region provides a tremendous diversity of landscapes that includes pinnacles, caverns, long lava tubes, shallow coral gardens and walls.

The seamount, known as Twin, is perforated by a pair of large lava tubes that lead divers through the reef wall to a dramatic exit point at a depth of 110 feet.

Such drained tubes commonly exhibit step marks on their walls that mark the various depths at which the lava flowed, known as flow ledges or flow lines depending on how prominently they protrude from the walls.

Indeed, diving the ocean off the KONA / KOHALA COAST is a world - class experience that stands out for its relatively young lava formations with walls, archways, lava tubes and abundant marine life.

Dripstone was created when lava splashed on the inside walls of the tubes.

An umbrella - like chandelier of fluorescent tubes trailing a tangle of wire tendrils, suggesting a maypole imagined by a hallucinatory Dan Flavin, is reflected here in the shiny black surface of an enormous tiled wall that has crumpled like a wad of paper (actually its starting point), frozen in midcollapse like a petrified lava flow.