Sentences with phrase «magmatic eruption»

Officials later on Sunday said the activity could be a magmatic eruption — one which involves the decompression of gas and results in the spewing of ash — and advised people near the mountain to wear masks.

«The volcanic eruption has now moved on to the next, more severe, magmatic eruption phase, where highly viscous lava can trap gasses under pressure, potentially leading to an explosion,» Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide's Australian School of Petroleum, said in a statement Monday.

«The activity of Mount Agung has entered the magmatic eruption phase,» Gede Suantika, an official at the volcanology and geological disaster mitigation agency, told Reuters.

«The volcanic eruption has now moved on to the next, more severe, magmatic eruption phase, where highly viscous lava can trap gases under pressure, potentially leading to an explosion,» says Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

The Geological agency head, Kasbani, who goes by one name, said the alert level was raised at 6 am on Monday because the volcano had shifted from steam - based eruptions to magmatic eruptions.

Not exact matches

The volcanologist explains that the lack of a major volcanic eruption does not necessarily indicate that magmatic activity has come to a complete halt.

«The low ratio of 18O to 16O contents in the crystal rims indicate that something in the magmatic system changed drastically just before the big eruption.

These observations provide a conceptual framework for better anticipating monogenetic eruptions in similar settings and magmatic fluxes and should lead to improved strategies for mitigation of their associated hazards and risks.

An adventure beneath the earth's surface An ancient legend tells of a long - gone continent called Magmatic, buried in a volcanic eruption -LSB-...]

By Saturday evening, local volcanologists increased the severity of the eruption from phreatic (steam) to magmatic, after fire and lava were spotted near the summit.

The Balinese volcano, the highest point on the island, has grown increasingly restless over the past week, with the alert system raised to its highest level early on Monday, as the nature of the eruptions has shifted from phreatic, or steam - based, to magmatic.

Hiromu Okada of Hokkaido University, who helped predict the eruption of Mount Usu, states that «If some magmatic system is ready or nearly due to erupt, an earthquake could be an effective trigger».

The End - Triassic Extinction Event occurred at the same time as the eruption of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.