Sentences with phrase «volcanic eruptions»

The team also showed for the first time that this recovery has slowed somewhat at times, due to the effects of volcanic eruptions from year to year.

It was the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

It's well known that particles thrown into the atmosphere by volcanic eruptions cause a global cooling effect by reflecting back sunlight.

Large quantities of mercury are also released by natural processes such as volcanic eruptions, forest fires and erosion.

These huge, eerie tunnels were created by lava draining through the landscape following a massive volcanic eruption thousands of years ago, and you can wander through them.

Their study also did not incorporate other important predictors for volcanic eruptions such as earthquakes and gas output — although the researchers plan to include these measurements in future studies.

The air bubbles may also contain traces of aerosols, which are produced in great concentrations during volcanic eruptions.

Acid rain can occur naturally after volcanic eruptions, forest fires and other events that release sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.

In the past, volcanic eruptions caused by changes at plate boundaries have warmed the atmosphere by pumping out greenhouse gases.

While no traveler can predict unexpected events like volcanic eruptions or earthquakes, there are a number of expensive mistakes travelers make often enough to warrant this post.

As it happens, there were some big volcanic eruptions around the time of the Little Ice Age.

In any case, the researchers want to continue their investigations into whether tree rings may be helpful in predicting volcanic eruptions.

If a large volcanic eruption occurs, global temperature drops for a few years quite predictably.

In the world of travel insurance, there is a difference between volcanic eruptions and volcanic ash events.

From 1963 to 1991, there were a series of volcanic eruptions which caused cooling and hence contraction of the upper ocean.

They suggest the «little chill» started with a 50 - year episode of four massive tropical volcanic eruptions.

Not only is the sea floor moving beneath you continuously, but the very rocks on which you build your house may be subject to volcanic eruption at any moment.

Large volcanic eruptions cool global temperatures, but only for a couple of years.

Small volcanic eruptions account for part of the global warming slowdown since 2000, a new study suggests.

While we know volcanic eruptions can cool the planet with particles for a year or two, the long - term impact of these volcanoes is actually adding to global warming.

New research ties it to a series of violent volcanic eruptions that threw material into the sky leading to a cooling.

First, volcanic eruptions produce major quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2), a gas known to contribute to the greenhouse effect.

Some research has tied it to a series of small volcanic eruptions around the globe while other findings have linked it to the changes in winds and ocean circulation.

This makes the question «will a warmer climate and melting ice lead to more volcanic eruptions» harder to answer.

[Response: There's no question that volcanic eruptions under the ice could make a difference, but they'd have to be in the right place, and they aren't.

While volcanic eruption is unlikely, it's certainly still possible.

The Great Barrier Reef's amazing diversity of life gets a helping hand from distant underwater volcanic eruptions, a new study has found.

They can be as small as a grain of salt, but tiny crystals that form deep in volcanoes may be the key for advance warnings before volcanic eruptions.

The two spikes around 1983 and 1993 were a consequence of volcanic eruptions injecting material into the stratosphere resulting in short term warming of the lower stratosphere.

The P - T boundary was marked with many volcanic eruptions.

The many spikes are volcanic sulfate aerosols, markers of past volcanic eruptions.

There are also distinctive volcanic eruption signals in the ocean heat content record.

They blame it on not very dramatic, small - scale volcanic eruptions.

The results suggested that moderate volcanic eruptions were behind the increases of aerosols in the atmosphere.