Sentences with phrase «of volcanic debris»

This result compares well with the observed hemispheric transport of volcanic debris leading to «the year without a summer» in 1816 in the northern hemisphere after the 1815 Tambora volcano cataclysmic eruption in Indonesia in 1815.

The massive volumes of volcanic debris deposited in the Spirit Lake and the Toutle River system during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State drastically changed the region and left its 50,00... More >>

Modern scientists identify and measure past eruptions using layers of volcanic debris found in ice cores, lake sediments, and other undisturbed soils.

ROUGH TERRAIN Underwater robots helped map Havre's 2012 eruption, creating elevation maps of the site and allowing researchers to figure out the volume of volcanic debris deposited there.

A little bee, Anthophora squammulosa, was zipping through the ash heaps looking for nectar and burrowing in a pile of volcanic debris.

Videos released by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency showed a mudflow of volcanic debris and water known as a lahar moving down the volcano's slopes.

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Then it vaporised, rising with other volcanic debris to an altitude of up to 20 kilometres.

More than 2000 times as massive as the blast that ripped open Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Indonesian «super-volcano» Toba ejected millions of metric tons of volcanic ash, sulfur, and other debris into the atmosphere 74,000 years ago.

But high - flying volcanic debris frustrated space physicists» attempts to use Jupiter's powerful magnetic field as a probe of Io's interior.

The Deccan volcanic eruptions there would ultimately belch out some 1.3 million cubic kilometers (300,000 cubic miles) of molten rock and debris.

Deccan volcanic eruptions spewed more than a million cubic kilometers (240,000 cubic miles) of molten rock and debris in what is now India.

Because of Io's low gravity, large volcanic eruptions produce an umbrella of debris that rises high into space.

Some may be the result of ancient volcanic activity but others may be made of debris from meteoric impacts.

The European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station on the volcanic island of Tenerife., Spain, is used for quantum communication and teleportation experiments, as well as for laser communication with satellites, space debris tracking and asteroid searches.

Picture a powerful grenade that explodes into a fountain of steam and hurls volcanic debris every which way.

The dark volcanic sands are as pristine and devoid of any human debris, as the sky is from cloud cover.

The chief characteristics of work from that decade, with its echoes of Hans Hofmann, are densely layered surfaces and the arbitrary petals of paint so evocatively described by Mel Gooding in his book: «They flicker and flash with the chromatic brilliancy of birds, fish or insects against the broken light of impasto and coagulation, or like volcanic debris falling through burned air, or like bright figures of water, air and fire against elemental grounds of pigmented earth.»

But soon the hatches above out heads become black with a thick layer of debris, and the volcanic rain seemed to be getting heavier.

Two major volcanoes — El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991 — caused global average temperature to dip as a result of volcanic ash, soot and debris reflecting sunlight back into space.

Figure 1: The Mt. St. Helens eruption of May 18, 1980, sent volcanic ash, steam, water, and debris to a height of 60,000 feet.

(Definition of a cinder cone: a «steep conical hill of tephra (volcanic debris) that accumulates around and downwind from a volcanic vent.»)

The debris may have caused years of volcanic «winter,» killing many creatures, including most early humans.