Sentences with phrase «of huge volcanoes»

A new energy source could replace fossil fuels, governments could control emissions, or maybe a series of huge volcanoes will erupt.

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This suggests a volcano, and Sinai may have been that or legend may have exaggerated such storms of thunder and lightning as still occur about the huge granite massif of the traditional Sinai, with mist pouring up like smoke from its flanks.

We drove around the huge crystal - clear lake that is inside the crater of a volcano and stopped at several overlooks.

As the volcano vented lava beneath the thick ice sheets, it released huge quantities of liquid water within the glacier.

Because of their size those volcanoes do not build up mountains but manifest themselves with their huge carter formed during the eruption — the caldera.

Although the Havre event was larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a similar type of volcano that shot a huge column of debris into the air, the seafloor data weren't indicative of such a large eruption.

They calculate that, around 3.9 billion years ago, erupting volcanoes emitted huge quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which eventually settled and dissolved in water as sulfidic anions — specifically, sulfites and bisulfites.

Icy volcanoes on Enceladus launch huge jets of gas and icy grains that contain fine particles of rock into space.

The climate was cooling, sea levels were retreating, and huge volcanoes in India were belching out lava and lots of atmosphere - altering gases.

The flybys produced superb images of the surfaces of Jupiter's large Galilean satellites, revealing sulphurous volcanoes on Io, ice chasms on Europa, huge ringed impact craters on Callisto, and polygonal dark regions on Ganymede.

The deadliest volcanoes on earth are called supervolcanoes, capable of producing cataclysmic eruptions that devastate huge regions, and cause global cooling of the climate.

Discharge of lava from the eruption at Bárðarbunga volcano released a huge mass — up to 120,000 tonnes per day — of sulphur dioxide gas, which can cause acid rain and respiratory problems.

Giant lateral collapses are huge landslides occurring at the flanks of a volcano.

Huge volumes of partly molten rock have forced their way upward within Sicily's Mount Etna since 1994, according to a new study of earthquakes under the volcano and bulges at its surface.

Soon after an underwater volcano erupted and wiped out all nearby life forms, hardy bacteria moved in and covered the sea floor in a huge mat of hair - like filaments.

Mars, on the other hand, is thought to have been shaped mostly during the period of primordial accretion and the so - called Late Heavy Bombardment, when asteroids carved out massive impact basins and pushed up huge volcanoes.

Volcanoes can cause global warming because eruptions often spew huge amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

«We think this huge thunderstorm is driving these cloud particles upward, sort of like a volcano bringing up material from the depths and making it visible from outside the atmosphere,» explains Sromovsky, a senior scientist at UW - Madison and an expert on planetary atmospheres.

The huge eruption of the Siberian volcanoes and the Permo - Triassic mass extinction occurred at just about the same time.

In particular, you'll be looking for clues as to why Zorah Magdaros, a huge dragon the size of a volcano, is heading to the New World.

From Donkey Kong Country Returns onwards, however, the frozen mountaintops and the visage of the great ape have been replaced by a huge volcano.

Words and numbers don't convey the drama of an erupting volcano, though, which probably accounts for the huge volume of online volcano resources.

A huge erupting bubble absorbs her brother, a volcano rises out of a lake, and a smelly Sasquatch walks the streets of Scotch's hometown of Toronto.

Hawaii is an ever - changing destination, where you can see a constantly erupting volcano, hike through lava tubes and see ash rise spectacularly from a huge lake of molten lava.

Crater Lake Lodge is positioned right at the end of a caldera (or huge crater) formed by the collapse of an ancient volcano.

In the Science Adventure Center, you can walk through a huge model of an erupting volcano and learn about the island's endemic, and in many cases extinct, flora and fauna.

The waterfall cascades over 100m of rhyolite cliffs, which once were a part of the huge Tweed Volcano.

Based on volcanology data, the volcano's eruption was quite huge, with an amplitude level of 52 dB and a volcanic ash altitude of more than 2,000 meters above the crater,» said NTB Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) head Muhammad Rum on Tuesday.

Highlights include getting up close to lions and leopards on safari in South Africa, climbing huge sand dunes and kayaking with baby seals in Namibia, learning to sail a yacht in Malaysia, riding a hot air balloon ride over otherworldly Cappadocia in Turkey, falling in love with Japan, eating our way around Italy and working it off with a hike up an active volcano, snorkelling with turtles in Mexico (and releasing baby turtles into the sea), staying in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives, visiting most of the Disney parks in the world, running a half - marathon in California wine country, and so much more!

For a relatively small country it packs a punch, complete with amazing surf beaches, rolling green hills, sub-alpine barren high lands, huge snow - capped volcanoes and of course, steamy jungle.

But that was before he walked into the main bathroom, with tile mosaics on every wall and a toilet (this would be number eight for us, if you're keeping track) that faced a huge Captain Nemo window and a spectacular panoramic vista of the volcanoes.

The ancient volcanoes that shaped this island are a huge part of the Lord Howe Island experience.

The start of the Waikato river signals the proximity of a huge watery crater — Lake Taupo Our drive winds along the shore of this extinct volcano before ascending the plateau to view the ominous snowclad peaks of Ruapehu, Ngaruahoe and Tongariro.

From lush ancient Hawaiian rainforests to dynamic lava landscapes, we will experience a variety of microclimates, huge craters, stand by steaming vents, walk through a lava tube, and if Madame Pele (the Volcano Goddess) allows, we'll see active lava flows pouring into the Pacific Ocean.

Bolivia attracts urban travelers with its most mountainous town La Paz, which is located in a huge crater of an extinct volcano.

Meet the huge diversity of flora and fauna surrounding the magestic Arenal volcano.

Here, a huge complex of temples and shrines await, with Besakih Temple sitting 1,000 metres above sea level on the south - western slopes of Mount Agung, Bali's active volcano.

Many visitors find the attraction of good shore - based resort diving set against a stunning back drop of huge, magnificent volcanoes and picturesque rice paddy terraces, simply irresistible.

While racing through these zones you will speed up volcanoes, around the twisting bodies of giant snakes and between huge, kart crushing snowballs.

For example, painters in Europe produced works showing a change in sky colors following the 1815 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Tambora, which belched huge volumes gas and ash, scattered sunlight in the atmosphere and producing brilliant orange and red sunsets around for world for a period of 3 years.

Prof. Ian Plimer: The very fact that we see this great plume of particles going into the atmosphere is telling us there's a huge amount of greenhouse gas being released from this volcano, unpronounceable volcano.

NASA was able to capture a huge plume of ash erupting from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.

In 2012, a science team from the University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Survey discovered a huge, 1 - mile - deep, Grand Canyon - size rift valley beneath the WAIS that does connect directly to a warmer ocean containing an also recently discovered chain of 62 active and semi-active («pulsing») volcanoes.

Phoenix House is located in Kalapana, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, near to the base of the huge Mauna Loa volcano

Phoenix House is located in Kalapana, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, near the base of the huge Mauna Loa volcano (Credit: Smiling Forest)

Stilicho, Here's another remarkable coincidence... The huge increase in concentrations of CO2 we've seen just happened to coincide with our actually starting to take CO2 measurements, and on the side of an active volcano no less.

Add variable phases (rain, ice, liquid, gas), and particles, and the a huge range of forcings (Solar variability, ocean currents, volcanoes, etc) and you have a very complex problem.

Methane has also been seeping from marshes, bubbling out of oceans, leaking from coal seams and oil seeps and being released in huge quantities from volcanoes.

Colorful fireplace is inspired by natural phenomena with huge energy resources of the volcano.