Sentences with phrase «shaped by lava»

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After puzzling it over and practically wallpapering his house with seafloor topography and magnetic field maps, in 1993 Klimley hypothesized that somehow their oblong - shaped heads can sense tiny changes in the magnetic lines created by volcanic lava flows.

Peering down into impact craters, the probe's cameras have seen evidence that the planet was shaped by several massive floods of lava billions of years ago.

Known in Papiamento as Conchi, this shell - shaped pool is surrounded by a large barrier of lava rocks that greet crashing waves from the Caribbean Sea.

The sculptural pieces are shaped by forms informed by the petrified trees of the Lava Trees State Park on Hawaii Island.

David Mann creates a lava - like abstract landscape of deep red tones in his painting, with surfaces further modulated by layered dispersions and elliptical shapes.