Sentences with phrase «molten rocks welling»
The strain is accommodated by either rocks sliding past one another, causing earthquakes, or by molten rocks welling up from deep underground to fill the opening space, ultimately leading to volcanic eruptions.
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Well I cruised by in my spaceship about 4.6 billion years ago, and saw nothing, but about 100 million years later I cruised by and there was a big molten rock so I named it Earth.
The researchers developed a method for measuring strength and finding weak spots in the lithosphere, the outer layers of earth that include the crust and the outer mantle — the molten rock lurking just under the surface that can well up and create volcanoes.
Much like a forensic team recreates a scene to determine how a crime was committed, researchers at the University of New Hampshire are using scientific sleuthing to better understand the journey of magma, or molten rock, in one of Europe's largest and most active volcanoes, Mount Etna.
The volcano was probably created by a tectonic rift running under west Antarctica, where Earth's crust is being pulled apart and molten rock is welling up from beneath.
The duo are cornered by lava, and the monkey arrives in the nick of time to relieve itself on the molten rock and, for good measure, the teensy duo.