Sentences with phrase «near the volcanoes of»

We are located in a rural area at the highest peak of the village of Uga, called El Morro, near the volcanoes of the Timanfaya National Park and the vineyards of La Geria, in the most idyllic setting.

Not exact matches

You might notice cultures that live near mountains / volcanoes have their own set of myths that include why a natural disaster like a volcanic eruption would befall them, vs. christianity / judaism that makes no mention of volcanic activity because that culture didn't have to deal with it.

Aquiares Estate coffee farm is located near the town of the same name east of San Jose in Costa Rica, high on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano.

And there are about a dozen wineries to discover in and near the volcanic hillsides of the Red Hills American Viticultural Area along with spectacular views of Mt. Konocti, a dormant towering volcano.

The fact that a similar sound is made by vulcanian and plinian eruptions — two types of blast with tall dense ash columns — suggests it is created as ash and gas churn up near the inner surface of the volcano mouth.

Researchers work in the area where the bees nest, next to the opening of the Masaya volcano near Managua.

The study also showed that volcanic hot spots along the ridge — volcanoes near Iceland as well as the islands of Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and elsewhere — all sit above warm spots in Earth's mantle.

This technique can determine whether a spot on the planet's surface is rising or falling over time, such as near a volcano on the verge of erupting or a sinkhole about to form.

Puffs of gas and small amounts of rock can leak from a volcano before an eruption; the composition can indicate the presence of magma near the surface, which could mean an eruption is imminent.

POOF Most of the debris from the 2012 eruption of Havre (shown), a deep - sea volcano near New Zealand, ended up in a pumice raft that floated across the South Pacific.

Scientists have measured remarkably high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil near dead trees on the flanks of California's Mammoth Mountain, a dormant volcano.

«That mechanism could work for a volcano already near a critical state,» says geophysicist David Hill of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.

The risk level had been raised to red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, on Saturday after authorities detected signs of a small eruption beneath a glacier near the Bardarbunga volcano in central Iceland.

If you go up to the top of one of these volcanoes in Ecuador — like Antisana near Quito — and you see this environment up there, it looks to all the world just like the Falklands.

«At the time this thing formed, it was in the middle of a basin that was nowhere near a subduction zone — it was nowhere near the kind of geologic activity that would cause a volcano to form.»

«There are far more human settlements and activities near the slopes of glaciated active volcanoes today than there were 10,000 years ago, so the effects could be catastrophic,» he says.

He knew that if there were rich mineral deposits near Papua New Guinea, there were many more of them all along the Ring of Fire, which includes a chain of underwater volcanoes winding from New Zealand to Japan.

Indonesia ordered the evacuation of 15,000 residents near an active volcano in the west of the vast archipelago on Sunday as authorities raised the alert for the emergency to the highest level.

The after - effects of this volcanic outburst are still being felt today, as earthquakes like the 5.8 magnitude quake centered near Mineral, Va. in 2011 still rumble through the faults weakened by the volcanoes.

At the time of their designation, the largest of the sites was the 95,000 - square - mile Marianas Trench monument near the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, an area that has been compared to an underwater Yellowstone and Grand Canyon for its unique geology of hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes and pools of boiling sulfur.

A spectrogram of ocean sounds records a tremor from an underwater volcano near Japan.

Instead of measuring seismic activity near volcanoes the device monitors levels of neutron radiation around them.

By measuring those waves using hundreds of seismic stations installed on the surface, near places such as Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone National Park, researchers can deduce whether there are narrow mantle plumes or whether volcanoes are simply created from magma that's absorbed in the sponge - like shallower mantle.

The rocks were formed from sediment deposited on continental margins, so are free of chemical irregularities that would occur near a subsea volcano.

Data gathered at a site near Tsukuba, Japan, show that about a third of stratospheric aerosols — much of them from small volcanoes — sit below 15 kilometers.

The picture, snapped by the Galileo spacecraft during its daredevil dive past Io on Thanksgiving and released here today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, also reveals a complex, jagged cliff arcing near the volcano.

These strange colonies were seen on an expedition to Tagoro volcano, near the Canary Islands, in 2014, two years after an eruption reshaped 9 square kilometres of the seabed.

They took advantage of a rare moment in 2009, when a video camera and a hydrophone were floating 1,200 meters below sea level in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa, watching and listening as the West Mata Volcano blew up in several ways.

The rock regatta Shortly after the 2006 eruption of an underwater volcano near the Pacific island of Tonga, researchers found a wide variety of organisms hitching a ride on volcanic pumice, Bryan told OurAmazingPlanet.

DENPASAR, Indonesia, Nov 27 (Reuters)- Indonesia closed the airport on the tourist island of Bali on Monday and ordered 100,000 residents living near a grumbling volcano spewing columns of ash to evacuate immediately, warning that the first major eruption in 54 years could be «imminent».

«The challenge is how to use these data efficiently and how to integrate them with models in order to have a deeper understanding of what occurs beneath the volcano and what drives the eruption so that we can determine near - real - time and accurate predictions of volcanic unrest.»

My main problem with that study is that the weather models don't use any forcings at all — no changes in ozone, CO2, volcanos, aerosols, solar etc. — and so while some of the effects of the forcings might be captured (since the weather models assimilate satellite data etc.), there is no reason to think that they get all of the signal — particularly for near surface effects (tropospheric ozone for instance).

I know I have made the argument that more info about natural forcings being really strong, all the more makes it a matter of prudence to totally reduce as much A-GHGs as possible & pronto, since we wouldn't want at situation in which both the natural forcings (a bunch of volcanos or greater solar output in the near future) to piggy - back with our anthropogenic greenhouse forcings.

The image above is of the western hemisphere of Mars, with Olympus Mons on the left horizon, the Tharsis Montes volcanoes a bit closer to the middle, and the Valles Marineris canyons near the center.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Just before a surprise eruption of New Zealand's Ruapehu volcano in 2007, seismic tremor near its crater became tightly correlated with twice - monthly changes in the strength of tidal forces, a new study has found.

However, for the period of 1950 - 2000, there seems to be a consensus that natural forcing (solar, volcano) as a whole is near zero or slightly negative (IPCC 2001) on the multi-decadal timescale.

The James - Clerk - Maxwell Observatory is established near the summit of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.

Mars» tallest volcano, Olympus Mons, appears as a prominent dark region near the top of the images, with a small white cloud at the summit that grows during the day.

The team tracked the heat of the third outburst for almost two weeks after its discovery to investigate how volcanoes influence Io's atmosphere and how these eruptions feed a doughnut of ionized gas - the Io plasma torus - that surrounds Jupiter near Io's orbit.

This low - energy setting, situated near the modern - day glacial below the active volcano of Tronador located about 50 km east of Monte Verde, is topographically and ecologically reminiscent of the sandur plain at the site that was occupied in late Pleistocene times.

Prometheus L to R: Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall - Green, Kate Dickie and Sean Harris on the set — July 18 - 19, 2011 — Hekla, Iceland — which is near the active volcano «Mount Hekla» which you can see in the background of some of the images

Another image provided by USGS shows lava spattering from an area between active Fissures 16 and 20 photographed at 8:20 a.m. HST, on the lower east rift of the Kilauea volcano, near Pahoa, Hawaii, on Wednesday.

At that time I was still living with my family on the farm in the Alcantara valley beneath the citadel of Castiglione, on the far eastern side of the island of Sicily, near the slopes of the great volcano.

Most of our time was spent cruising around the Bermuda Rise, a cluster of extinct underwater volcanos near Bermuda, pausing to take core samples of the mud whenever the conditions looked good.

Among other things, Crosley is a travel writer, and one of the most enjoyable essays in her new collection Look Alive Out There recounts her near - disastrous attempt to summit Cotopaxi, a volcano in Ecuador, more or less on a whim.

Part of the exclusive community of Playa Hermosa, this brand - new villa is near shopping and dining, a short drive from a selection of beaches and even close enough to national parks and volcanoes for a day trip.

The ruins of the first, known as León Viejo can still be seen near the base of Momotombo Volcano and is one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas.

Located near the tiny town of La Fortuna, the volcano erupted for the first time in 1968, but has been dormant for years.

Caravan Costa Rica tour guests spend 2 nights in La Fortuna near the base of Arenal Volcano, where they can witness Arenal's soft lava flow from the safety and comfort of the area's natural hot springs.

Costa Rica is world renowned for its sustainable ecotourism and the eco-friendly rainforest trails and bridges of Hanging Bridges (located near the base of Arenal Volcano) will bring you up close to Costa Rica's exotic wildlife, birds and rainforests.