Sentences with phrase «volcanic event about»
The team determined that the basalts from Baffin Island, formed by a 60 - million - year - old eruption from the mantle hot - spot currently located beneath Iceland, and the Ontong - Java Plateau, which was formed by an enormous volcanic event about 120 million years ago, contain slightly more tungsten - 182 than other young volcanic rocks.
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Here we are not dealing with large volcanic eruptions of the size of Pinatubo of Mount St. Helens, here we are talking about extreme events: The Toba caldera in the Sumatra subduction zone in Indonesia originated from one of the largest volcanic eruption in recent Earth history, about 74,000 years ago.
The finding supports previous research suggesting that colossal volcanic eruptions in what's now Siberia, about 300,000 years before the onset of the extinction event, probably triggered the die - off of nearly all marine species and two - thirds of species living on land (SN: 9/19/15, p. 10).
That sudden beginning, when it takes place on the slopes of a volcanic island, creates concern about a possible catastrophic flank event.
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.
One of the most memorable discussions involves speculation about volcanic activity on the Canary Islands (where much of the novel's secondary narratives take place) and how a catastrophic volcanic event there could prove cataclysmic elsewhere, including on the other side of the Atlantic.
Radiative forcing produced by explosive volcanic events that have occurred in the historic period lasts for about 3 years.
I consider it as very likely that the 20 year trends will still be statistically significant also in three, five or ten years from now, unless there is some strong volcanic explosion that blows a lot of reflecting aerosols in the stratosphere causing a temporary temperature dip, or some other cause the effect of which is explainable within the framework of current knowledge about the climate system, but as event not really predictable.