Sentences with phrase «of violent volcanic eruptions»
New research ties it to a series of violent volcanic eruptions that threw material into the sky leading to a cooling.
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Some of the more extreme forecasts made for this time period include alien visitations / invasions, catastrophic asteroid impacts, violent volcanic eruptions and massive earthquakes.
Scientists are now watching to see whether the volcano repeats the violent eruptions of 1963, when superheated gases and volcanic material raced down the mountain in a series of pyroclastic flows, killing more than 1000 people.
Volcanic eruptions are some of the most violent events on Earth... but seen from space, they take on an eerie and forbidding beauty.
The violent birth of a mega-continent, with huge volcanic eruptions, could help explain the rich diversity of animal life that exists today
ON 5 February 252 AD, a violent volcanic eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily sent a wave of lava towards the city of Catania.
This caused an ever - increasing amount of energy to enter our system which produced higher wind speeds, more violent earthquakes, and even more frequent volcanic eruptions.
The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.
Namely, that this cold period happened because of four violent volcanic eruptions.
Also, regarding subsea volacanic eruptions — a volcanic eruption involves release of magma at several thousand degrees C plus superheated gases — when that hits cold sea water you are going to have a very violent and explosive change of form from lquid water to steam combined with the release of dissolved gases (mostly CO2)-- I am not sure what laws of Chemistry and Physics you are looking at, but I would suggest that that those bubbles and heated gases and water will rise to to the surface very quickly and have a major local effect on any nearby ice.