Sentences with phrase «past eruptions»

Their method will help to understand the reasons for past eruptions, and thus allow more accurate predictions for eruptions yet to occur.

Hop out of your coach to see such tricks take place, and hear stories from your guide about past eruptions.

Evidence of past eruptions from other, smaller domes are also apparent around the rim of the caldera, though few break the surface.

Full - Day Tour: After traveling through Uga and Timanfaya National Park to see the geothermal demonstrations, follow the Route of the Volcanoes to see some of the more spectacular lava formations as your guide explains how they were formed by past eruptions.

To see whether quakes of this magnitude might have triggered past eruptions, geophysicists Alan Linde and I. Selwyn Sacks of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C., scrutinized historical records of earthquakes and volcanoes dating to the 16th century.

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

Map showing past eruptions of the Yellowstone hot spot Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Yellowstone National Park

«This paper provides a model for the pattern of the ash cloud if the wind is blowing past an eruption of a given size,» said Peter Baines, a scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who did the study.

Highlights: Volcanoes erupting, hiking through past eruptions, dipping in volcanically heated hot springs, sunset on Mauna Kea, exploring Waipio Valley, Hilo Wednesday market, touring Kona coffee plantations, watching crazy people jump off South Point, diving or snorkeling with Manta Rays.

Observation of past eruptions throughout the world suggest that volcanoes can have a bit impact on weather and climate.

Volcanologists use the remains of past eruptions and previous warning signs to predict when it might blow.

Moore says the surface textures suggest that past eruptions, which may have occurred a billion years ago, would have oozed out water ice that was plastic rather than liquid and runny.

There, the researchers will take samples along the sand sheet created by the Askja volcano's past eruptions to learn more about changes in the sand's grain size, chemical composition, and shape.

Past eruptions of this volcano and other Central American volcanoes had been reconstructed within the Collaborative Research Project 574.

«Volcano forensics» involves a mixture of modern day monitoring and analysis of past eruptions.

Ancient myths and texts narrate the importance of Mount Agung and the destruction brought by its past eruptions.

The name of the valley and river, Telaga Waja, means «steel pond» in Balinese, owing to the once steady flow of red - hot lava resembling molten steel from the past eruption of Mount Agung.