Sentences with phrase «of volcanic mountains»

The islands are the product of volcanic mountains and warm tropical waters.

The tallest of a string of volcanic mountains that run from west to east is Gunung Agung Volcano, which last erupted in 1963.

As picture - perfect as a postcard, the resort welcomes you with a three - story, open - air lobby featuring stone archways that frame dramatic views of volcanic mountains and the resort's mile - long crescent beach.

Against a backdrop of volcanic mountains, gaunt hills and withered scrub trees, this lodge blends in perfectly with the natural environment, using native materials and surrounded by lush gardens.

Fueled by two coastlines, the Pacific on the west and the Atlantic / Gulf on the right, a vast range of volcanic mountains divide the two oceans.

It is among one of the best tourist spot in the world because of its volcanic mountains, beaches, coral reefs and rice paddies.

It's because it's easily the best all - rounder, with a beautiful hinterland of volcanic mountains and rice paddies and some pretty outstanding beaches.

running east to west and slightly off centre, are a string of volcanic mountains, the highest and most recently active being is mount Agung, which reaches 3,142 m at its highest point and last erupted in 1963.

The Ring of Fire — the ring of volcanic mountains along the rim of the Pacific — is an example of this type of collision.

A rugged chain of volcanic mountains, the midocean ridge, runs down the center of the Atlantic, around Africa into the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Antarctica, and across the South Pacific, then up the East Pacific to California, where it becomes the San Andreas Fault.

Not surprisingly, the maps show a giant blob of superheated rock about 60 miles beneath Mount Sidley, the last of a chain of volcanic mountains in Marie Byrd Land at one end of the transect.

Take a trip up to the top of a volcanic mountain for breath - taking views of the surrounding islands, try horse riding or take a tour of the island on an ocean catamaran.

Watch the red hot glow of active lava, ascend to the summit of a volcanic mountain, or hike to a secret beach and discover why Hawaii is like no other.

To me, it represented all the particles of a volcanic mountain within the confines of darkness waiting to explode.

Not exact matches

The salars are largely underlain and surrounded by volcanic rocks of andesitic to basaltic affinity that make up some of the 800 volcanoes located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile.

You might notice cultures that live near mountains / volcanoes have their own set of myths that include why a natural disaster like a volcanic eruption would befall them, vs. christianity / judaism that makes no mention of volcanic activity because that culture didn't have to deal with it.

In part on the strength of the proposition that the description of God's appearance on the sacred mountain in Exodus 19 presupposes volcanic phenomena (a view supported by the guiding cloud and pillar of fire?)

If it were conclusively demonstrable that tradition here preserves the eyewitness report of the sacred mountain under such violent natural seizure; and furthermore if such natural phenomena were unmistakably attributable to volcanic action (the strongest but still indecisive indication of this is the phrase in verse 18 «the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln»), we could with some assurance locate Sinai Horeb in the only area within possible range where volcanic phenomena have existed - that is, in the territory of ancient Midian (present Arabia) east of the northern end of the Gulf of Aqabah.

The account of the great theopliany at the holy mountain is, inter alia, a veiled record of a volcanic eruption (Exod.

Idaho's growing season of warm days and cool nights, ample mountain — fed irrigation and rich volcanic soil, give Idaho ® potatoes their unique texture, taste and dependable performance.

The climate in the Auvergne also contributes to their unique texture: a lack of humidity and abundant sunshine, courtesy of the surrounding mountains and volcanic deposits, ensures that the lentils dry on the plant all by themselves.

Idaho's growing season of warm days and cool nights, ample mountain - fed irrigation and rich volcanic soil, give Idaho Potatoes their unique texture, taste and dependable performance, that differentiates Idaho ® potatoes from potatoes grown in other states.

From our Vineyard perched on top of Howell Mountain at at elevation of 2,100 feet, this Cabernet reflects the power and intensity characteristic of a terroir of decomposed volcanic ash and red clay.

Rodrigues, 340 miles further east, is a dependency of Mauritius is also of volcanic origin, but has no mountains.

Idaho's growing season of warm days and cool nights, ample mountain - fed irrigation, and rich volcanic soil give Idaho ® potatoes their unique texture, taste and dependable performance, which differentiates Idaho ® potatoes from potatoes grown in other states.

Idaho's growing season of warm days and cool nights, ample mountain - fed irrigation, and rich volcanic soil give Idaho ® potatoes their unique texture, taste and dependable performance, which differentiates them from potatoes grown in other states.

For the operator, that means fluffier baked potatoes with bright white interiors and more potato flavor; crispier, fuller French - fried potatoes with less shrink; and tastier mashed potatoes with a smooth texture and unrivaled taste (Idaho's rich volcanic soil, mountain - fed irrigation, and growing season of warm days and cool nights ensure dependable performance).

THE low - frequency rumble of a violent volcanic explosion sounds just like the roar of a jet engine, a similarity which might tells us what's going on within the fiery mountains.

One possibility is that the eruption column of hot volcanic ash, gas and rock fragments now extending into the sky above the summit could collapse into what's called a pyroclastic flow and race down the flanks of the mountain.

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.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

The convergence associated with this subduction process is responsible for the uplift of the Andes Mountains, and for the active volcanic chain present along much of this deformation front.

Visible from the Gulf of Mexico and rising about 18,500 feet above sea level, this snowcapped volcanic cone is the highest mountain in Mexico.

He discovered that the occurrence of deep ocean floor rocks, volcanic rocks and deformed rocks, which are currently found in the mountain ranges of New Guinea, point to the existence of a 4000 km wide subduction zone.

The predominance of plants adapted to drier conditions after the extinction event is consistent with the gradual aridification of the North American continent due to the uplift of the Cordilleran volcanic mountain range and the probable northward shift of North America through plate tectonics.

Hacker, who studies catastrophic geological events, said the slide originated when a volcanic field consisting of many strato - volcanoes, a type similar to Mount St. Helens in the Cascade Mountains, which erupted in 1980, collapsed and produced the massive landslide.

These mountains do not appear to be of volcanic origin, and scientists are not sure how they form.

Composed of the remnants of volcanic explosions, eroded mountains, dead organisms, and even degraded man - made structures, sand can reveal the history — both biological and geologic — of a local environment.

Atmospheric changes that caused volcanic eruptions centuries ago, such as the one in Timanfaya or the Tambora volcano (Indonesia)- which hid the sunlight for months -, had an impact on high - mountain centennial forests in the Iberian Peninsula, as stated in an article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment in which the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, has taken part.

The bathers that gather every summer on the banks of the rivers of the mountain ranges of La Cabrera and El Teleno in León have little reason to suspect that the rocks that they can see near the water are of volcanic origin, over 460 million years old, when an emerging Iberian Peninsula was still on the coast of the continent of Gondwana, on the shore of the Rheic ocean.

A new study shows the chemical register of climate change and global episodes such as volcanic eruptions in high - mountain centennial forests in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain).

By analyzing the speed of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, scientists have shown that temperature differences deep within Earth's mantle control the elevation and volcanic activity along mid-ocean ridges, the colossal mountain ranges that line the ocean floor.

The strange hummocky texture of the mountain flanks may represent volcanic flows of some sort that have travelled down from the summit region and onto the plains beyond, but why they are hummocky, and what they are made of, we don't yet know.»

This new research nicely demonstrates that if you change the load on a volcanic mountain — for example by removing some ice — the likelihood of a mechanical collapse and possible ensuing eruption will be slightly increased.

Tarduno and his students had been studying massive lava flows that cover some of the High Arctic islands, and believes the same volcanic events that produced those igneous rocks also could have produced a series of islands along a low underwater mountain range in the Arctic Ocean called Alpha Ridge.

In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).

I then add 80 ml of sole, 1 ounce organic concord grape juice frozen concentrate, and 60 ml of a 1 to 1 ratio of raw ACV and refrigerated bee pollen, to 2 liters of mountain or volcanic water and wait 1 more day.

The San Francisco Peaks are a volcanic mountain range in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff and a remnant of the former San Francisco Mmountain range in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff and a remnant of the former San Francisco MountainMountain.

Red Mountain, the volcanic peak at the center of the island, «appears inaccessible,» says redditor FloorBelow, «though the northern ashlands around Urshilaku are [accessible] along with Molag Amur.»

The biggest threat on the boy's journey (that ends at the top of a volcanic ash spewing mountain straight out of Lord of the Rings) is a man - hunting monster like the ones his father fights.