Sentences with phrase «of island volcano»

«Not only do we have a better understanding of the physical properties of Sierra Negra,» said Ebinger, «we have increased out knowledge of island volcano systems, in general.»

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The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

There were some clues in the press release as to the inauthenticity of this brave new venture: we dated the release March 31 but datelined it from the Republic of Vanuatu, an island with two of the most active volcanoes in the world.

The Atlantic islands are an obscure republic about 600 km west of Africa, notable for volcanoes, stunning beaches, and one of the original economic citizenship programs.

Salesforce cofounder and CEO Marc Benioff draws inspiration for his company's constant innovation from everywhere, even the residual energy from the dormant volcano underneath his vacation home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

The island nation of Iceland, known for its scenic volcanoes and beautiful landscapes is perhaps the last place where you'd imagine such a crime to take place!

kudalk No, that much is true, but they did consider it a magical place (imagine two rings of islands, one inside the other, otherwise surrounded by water... likely they could not conceive that this is a natural formation for volcanoes), and was a center of culture and art.

But today, the winery comprises six estates in Sicilia: mountains (the volcano Etna), sea (island of Favignana), and hills (Trapani countryside).

Located on the island of Sumatra, Kerinci is an important center for global cinnamon production as well as the home of Indonesia's highest volcano and one of the few remaining pockets of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.

Vog can cover parts of the Kona coast from time to time depending on the activity of the Kilauea volcano and the island winds.

In the early mornings, before the sun has moved above the misty rims of the old volcanoes, north of the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, 32 - year - old Frank Kahahane and his grizzled Uncle Libert are pushing a deep - hulled outrigger canoe off the beach.

The visitor who allows himself some slack time to wander about, visiting a volcano here, a seacoast there, is taken by the remarkable capacity these small islands have for absorbing almost anything, whether it be a mile - wide stream of hot lava, a tidal wave, an incursion of mongooses and rats or a touring busload of Stetsoned Texans.

Indonesian authorities ordered a mass evacuation of people Monday from an expanded danger zone around an erupting volcano on Bali that has forced the island's international airport to close, stranding tens of thousands of travelers.

The birth and death of a young volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean may shed light on the origins of volcanoes in Mars» wetter past.

Kauai is often called Hawaii's Garden Isle because of its lush tropical forests: Unlike the two active volcanoes on the Big Island, the volcano that birthed Kauai sputtered out 2 million years ago, letting the trees grow unmolested.

First author Kevin Konrad, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and his team have evaluated new rock dating of volcanoes in the Rurutu volcanic chain, including, for example, the Tuvalu volcanic islands in the Western Pacific.

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.

The reservoir, found on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, is part of an igneous rock formation created 60 million years ago when volcanoes unleashed a torrent of fast - flowing, deep - earth lava.

THE MOMENT: The Sarychev Volcano, in the Kuril Islands between Japan and northeast Russia, expels a plume of brown ash in the early stages of an eruption in June.

They measured the eggs, beaks, et cetera, of finches on Daphne Island, a small, hilly former volcano top in Ecuador's Galápagos, year after year.

The temperature profile through the Earth's interior also underpins geophysical models that explain the creation and intense activity of hot - spot volcanoes like the Hawaiian Islands or La Réunion.

Months of warning signs from Mauna Loa, on Hawaii's Big Island, prompted the U.S. Geological Society to recently start releasing weekly updates on activity at the world's largest active volcano.

Scientists are debating whether the break in the cloud layer above the volcano is related to the eruption or simply the result of the normal way that ocean air dries as it moves over an island.

While a dozen volcanoes remain active in the archipelago, the three most volatile are Fernandina's and the Cerro Azul and Sierra Negra volcanoes on the southwest and southeast tips, respectively, of Isabella Island, the archipelago's largest landmass.

Humans inhabited rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra between 73,000 and 63,000 years ago — shortly before a massive eruption of the island's Mount Toba volcano covered South Asia in ash, researchers say.

The location of the mantle plume, to the southeast of where computer modeling had put it, may explain the continued activity of volcanoes on the various Galapagos Islands.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

Seismologists proposed some 30 years ago that stationary plumes of hot rock in the mantle occasionally punched through the crust to produce volcanoes, which, as the crust moved, generated island chains such as the Galapagos, Cape Verde and Canary islands.

This is Sakurajima volcano, on the southern tip of Kyushu, the most southerly of Japan's main islands.

This is Figure 1 from Unema et al., including the location of Okmok volcano on Umnak Island in central Aleutian Islands.

The Solomon Islands straddles the so - called «Pacific Ring of Fire,» a highly seismically active zone where different plates on the earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.

The most famous submarine volcanoes are those that lead to the formation of new islands, such as the eruption of Surtsey in Iceland in the 1960s.

The Observatory keeps a close watch not only on the Mount Vesuvius, but also on the volcanoes of the nearby regions of Campi Flegrei and the Island of Ischia.

State scientists and officials are warning some residents of Hawaii's Big Island that their homes could be jeopardized by a lava flow from Kilauea Volcano that is moving through a forest preserve toward their neighborhood.

Mather first caught sight of a volcano when she was on holiday, visiting a friend on Reunion Island, while she was a third - year chemistry undergraduate at Cambridge.

Now, using geochemical, stratigraphic, and even historical data, a team of scientists has fingered a likely culprit: Indonesia's Samalas volcano, part of the Rinjani Volcanic Complex on Lombok Island.

Therefore they provide important information about the evolutionary timing of submarine volcanos, from inception through to emergence above the sea as they become volcanic islands.

Next down the chain is Loihi, an underwater volcano southeast of the Big Island that's less than 3,100 feet from the surface and rising.

Since bursting to life 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in 2013, a massive marine volcano called Nishinoshima has erupted dozens of times, spewing red - hot lava that engulfed a neighboring island.

As the island rose upward out of the sea, volcanoes formed along its spine, with basins of shallow water between them.

That's what happens every day at Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.

They identified rings of magnetite (iron oxide) arranged around the sooty spheres in the same pattern as in frocks from a volcano on the island of Svalbard, Norway.

«The exact nature of those interactions will need further study,» said French, «but we now have a clearer picture that can help us understand the «plumbing» of Earth's mantle responsible for hotspot volcano islands like Tahiti, Reunion and Samoa.»

The composition of this lava dome is different from the magma that caused the giant caldera to erupt — it shows the same chemical characteristics as the current post-caldera volcano on the nearby Satsuma Iwo - jima Island.

A volcano erupted for the third time in as many months on the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, forcing hundreds of villagers to evacuate, officials said.

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.

There are at least 100 volcanoes on the islands, 35 of them still active, and the islands are often hit by earthquakes and tidal waves.

The Galápagos Islands are home to some of the most active volcanoes in the world, with more than 50 eruptions in the last 200 years.

By comparison, the Soufrière Hills volcano on Montserrat, a 60 - square - mile island in the Caribbean, has been erupting sporadically since 1995, slowly entombing the lower two - thirds of the island in ash.

Now research out of the University of Rochester is providing a better picture of the subterranean plumbing system that feeds the Galápagos volcanoes, as well as a major difference with another Pacific Island chain — the Hawaiian Islands.