«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.»
Not exact matches
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.