Sentences with phrase «on volcanic islands»

On volcanic islands the sea can enter the caldera and the face of the volcanic pipe can form a steep coastline.

Landslides on volcanic islands above the sea have been studied for decades.

But a third species, M. nesiota, lives on a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean known as the Comoros.

Arriving by helicopter, fly - camp on a volcanic island, surrounded by the jade waters of Lake Turkana

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.

Shipwrecked on a volcanic island, spoiled heiress Jerrie Turner (McCalla) and explorers Fred (Tod Griffin) and Sammy (Victor Sen Yung) fall into the clutches of unreconstructed Nazi scientist Osler (Rudolph Anders).

Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast...

Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue.

A remake of sorts of the 1969 film La Piscine, A Bigger Splash tells the story of ageing rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) and her younger lover Paul (Schoenaerts) who, while vacationing on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, are unexpectedly joined by hirsute old flame Harry (Fiennes) and his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson).

From a humble start - ninth overall and third in class behind the wheel of a CMN motor buggy - Ferrari went on to achieve a total of thirteen outright victories (with both Alfa Romeo and Ferrari teams) on this volcanic island.

WHAT IT»S LIKE: On the volcanic island of Ischia — famous for its hot springs and therapeutic mud — and outside the small town of Lacco Ameno, sits the Hotel della Baia, a chic, secluded, 25 - room inn.

Palette of yellows, blues, greens, and pinks simply can not go unnoticed on this volcanic island.

Book and enjoy a relaxing holiday at the Vulcano Hotel located in the popular resort of Playa De Las Ameicas which lies on the volcanic island of Tenerife.

In February 2015, Valerio Figuccio traveled to Ginostra, a village on the volcanic island of «Stromboli».

Not exact matches

Depending on which side of the island you're on, you can dig your toes in either plush white sand or black volcanic beaches.

As if having a tsunami that has killed 272 people and left over 400 missing wasn't bad enough: 25 people have been confirmed dead by a volcanic eruption on another Indonesian island.

(as I was told), as the natural sand on the island is a grey / black (volcanic).

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.

He then discovered the Alps and the volcanic Greek island of Santorini on a post-college European sojourn, sparking a fascination with geology.

There is precedent for oceanic dispersal of Moggridgea: the spiders are also found on the Comoros, volcanic islands 340 kilometers from mainland Africa.

Formed from volcanic eruptions, the Hawaiian archipelago, like other island chains, has a breathtaking variety of species — many found nowhere else on Earth — that evolved from a few hardy pioneers.

Similar cycles have been recently witnessed on the nearby volcanic island of Montserrat.

A meandering stream of volcanic lava on Hawaii's Big Island has resumed its slow march through forest lands toward residential communities in its path, sending up heavy smoke as it burns trees

The shape and size of the beak are crucial for finch survival on the islands, which periodically experience extreme droughts, El Niño - driven rains and volcanic activity.

A volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea on Friday sent smoke and ash spewing high over the South Pacific island nation, leading some aircraft to alter their flight paths.

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.

Then, in 1964, rock climbers found the dried - out remains of a giant stick insect on Ball's Pyramid, an 1,800 - foot - tall spire of volcanic rock 14 miles from Lord Howe Island.

That sudden beginning, when it takes place on the slopes of a volcanic island, creates concern about a possible catastrophic flank event.

In 1939, leading Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos pinned the blame on a colossal volcanic eruption on the island of Thera, about 70 miles north of Crete, that occurred about 1600 B.C..

This island emerged from a volcanic eruption that began on June 6 on a submerged shoal; by early July, when the eruption had stopped, it was about 900 feet wide and 140 feet high.

But the third, M. nesiota, lives on the Comoros, which are volcanic islands.

Plant samples preserved underneath these outlet glaciers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic led NSF - funded researchers to conclude that the Earth's Little Ice Age began in 1275 and was triggered by repeated volcanic eruptions that cooled the atmosphere.

Volcanologist Andrew McGonigle walks through clouds composed of mist, steam, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) on Vulcano, an active volcanic island off the coast of southern Italy.

The proximity of these ULVZs below volcanic island chains has prompted theories suggesting that the giant reservoirs of molten rock feed the mantle plumes that create the islands on Earth's surface.

This study may have implications particularly for our understanding of the long term evolution of intraplate volcanic ocean islands and sheds lights on the interacting processes occurring during growth and collapse of volcanic edifices.

The Tongan island may also help researchers understand volcanic features on Mars that look similar.

New Zealand scientists mapped the Havre volcano, a caldera nearly three miles (4.5 kilometers) across on the seafloor northeast of the North Island of New Zealand, using shipboard sonar instruments in 2002 and again immediately after the eruption in 2012, revealing the presence of new volcanic material on the seafloor.

«Those cliffs of volcanic ash are pretty unstable,» said remote sensing specialist and NASA Goddard co-author Dan Slayback of the receding cliffs on the southern side of the island.

Coral reefs, growing over the millenia on top of subsiding volcanic islands, now keep entire nations in the Pacific above the waves.

Unexplained volcanic events have been occurring on or near Heard Island, an uninhabited Australian possession in the southern Indian Ocean about 1600 kilometres from Antarctica.

Suddenly you're standing on an iceberg in the middle of a group of playful Adélie penguins on rocky, volcanic Franklin Island (above right).

The research team led by Dr. Jin - Young Lee confirmed in results from radiocarbon dating for carbonized wood (charcoal) found below the basaltic layer located in Sangchang - ri, Seogwipo - si, Jeju - do it dated back to 5,000 years ago; which means the time when the basalt on the upper layer was formed took place relatively recently, i.e. 5,000 years ago, and which demonstrates that the island has experienced a volcanic eruption fairly recently.

The rock regatta Shortly after the 2006 eruption of an underwater volcano near the Pacific island of Tonga, researchers found a wide variety of organisms hitching a ride on volcanic pumice, Bryan told OurAmazingPlanet.

The latest volcanic eruption occurring on Jeju Island was volcanic activity known to have spewed around 7,000 years ago at Mt. Songak.

In Jeju, Korea, a place emerging as a world - famous vacation spot with natural tourism resources, a recent study revealed a volcanic eruption occurred on the island.

But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack.

In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.

blaming the results reported in Nature on a» chain of heat - venting sub-sea islands», which given the continental trend, seems even more bizarre than invoking volcanic activity in the Arctic ocean

Gray rubble on the flanks of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii lie in contrast to the red volcanic rock behind them, and were deposited by a glacier that disappeared thousands of years ago.

Around 74,000 years ago, a massive caldera erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a prolonged and devastating volcanic winter.