Sentences with phrase «volcanic events on»

It is considered one of the largest known volcanic events on Earth and it happened deep in the midst of the continental plate of Pangaea, in a part that is now Siberia.

During the 2000 - 2001 school year, Jason XII will explore Hawaii and compare volcanic events on Earth with those throughout the solar system.

Such eruptions, which expel enormous quantities of magma, are the largest volcanic events on earth.

By measuring the abundance of an isotope of the noble gas argon in the rock or its crystals, Gazel and his colleague Michael Kunk of the U.S. Geological Survey found that the magma was much younger than the last known volcanic event on the East Coast — which occurred when the supercontinent of Pangaea slowly pulled apart into North America, Africa and South America some 200 million years ago, forming the Atlantic Ocean in the process.

Not exact matches

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).

Volcanic eruptions are some of the most violent events on Earth... but seen from space, they take on an eerie and forbidding beauty.

Only a subset of glaciologists have focused on the potential of seismology to inform their research, while the vast majority of seismologists are focused on tectonic and volcanic events.

You'd love to actually find evidence of that event in the geological record, but on Earth the early record was destroyed by volcanic and tectonic processes.

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

«Most of these events have been blamed, at various times, on volcanic eruptions and asteroids impacts.

These observations may have a bearing on the coincidence of volcanic events with suspected meteor craters that were the subject of Matt Kaplan's recent article (5 June, p 38).

More than 70 percent of all volcanic activity on Earth occurs on the seafloor, but details of these events are largely hidden from view by seawater.

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.

Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the Pacific Ocean with dramatic global impacts on the climate, according to a new study.

David Hoey discusses the impact a volcanic event at Laki in Iceland may have had on the English countryside (Letters,...

«We know that volcanic activity can have a major effect on the environment, so the big question was, how are these two events related,» Macdonald said in a statement Monday.

The volcanic events associated with these intervals caused global weather and climate phenomena and are often used by climate modelers as well to understand volcanic sulfate loading on the climate.

Zooming in on the period after 1970, one sees a record of largely unabated warming, with temperatures increasing steadily accompanied by some short - term variability driven by El Niño and La Niña events, and also by major volcanic eruptions like Pinatubo in 1992.

«While volcanic eruptions are natural events, it was the timing of these that had such a noticeable effect on the trend.

Players will embark on a dangerous journey... 700 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls 3, from the docks of Seyda Neen, to the volcanic Ashlands, to dense, mushroom - filled forests, and through the glory of Vivec City, still under construction in this time period.»

Of all the things that could disrupt travel to an international event, I can't imagine any agent had «volcanic ash» on the list for travel interruptions.

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.

From the luxurious villa rentals overlooking volcanic black sand beaches and the resorts that are nestled in the middle of the rainforest, to the tiny cottages perched on mountain tops that allow for the best hiking that the island has to offer, these choices are all designed to deliver a vast array of options to fit any budget, personal preference and event.

The same forces that led to the most recent major volcanic event (a devastating 1957 eruption on the island of Faial that sent a wave of refugees to the U.S. and beyond) also make the Azores one of Europe's best destinations for mineral hot springs and geothermally - heated ocean lagoons.

These lakes are found on the floor of the Great Rift Valley where major tectonic and / or volcanic events have shaped a distinctive landscape.

Players will embark on a dangerous journey through legendary locales in Vvardenfell, 700 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls III, from the docks of Seyda Neen, to the volcanic Ashlands, to dense, mushroom - filled forests, and through the glory of Vivec City, still under construction in this time period.

She has captured such events as speeding motorcycles on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Olympic synchronized swimmers in their attempts to defy gravity, kayaks performing a synchronized ballet in Arctic waters, sulfur miners inside an active volcano, a camel caravan crossing the Taklamakan desert of Western China, the exploration of an otherworldly crystal cavern half a mile below the earth's surface, and Afar nomads defending the volatile and volcanic Danakil Depression in the Horn of Africa.

This is pretty basic number crunching, it is not rocket science and it should be evaluated with an eye on unusual events (giant EN, volcanic eruption, etc) that might push the decadal numbers one way or the other.

I think there is an important context here that is easy to lose in all of the emphasis on the thing that the trees don't appear to be doing well w / (i.e. the response to the high - frequency cooling events associated primarily with explosive volcanic eruptions): that's, the thing that the trees appear to be doing remarkably well with, i.e. capturing the long - term trends and low - frequency variability that is predicted by the climate model simulations.

In other words, fluctuations in global GHG concentrations are not dependent (generally) on volcanic events.

The danger from storms that occur relative to volcanic events, on the other hand, with high SOx emissons is wind damage.

Andy, in order to have a «lost ring event», the volcanic eruption would likely need to be quite large (I would imagine being 6 or seven on the Volcanic explosive indvolcanic eruption would likely need to be quite large (I would imagine being 6 or seven on the Volcanic explosive indVolcanic explosive index VEI).

The world has not seen a major volcanic event for at least 25 years, but the tropical volcano Mt Agung on Bali is now threatening to erupt.

On the off chance, then, an observation: why would an escape clause be needed in the event of a volcanic eruption?

On the basis of the above two charts it seems that the global background trend in stratosphere and troposphere is not significantly affected by volcanic events or individual El Nino events.

The only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the above is that CO2, volcanic outbreaks and El Nino events have little or no effect on the background temperature trends in stratosphere and troposphere because of the ability of the Earth system to change the height of the tropopause and the size and location of the permanent climate zones to change the speed of energy flow through the Earth system and thereby negate any such effects.

This reminds me of the time I mixed uncorrected radiocarbon dates with corrected ones, and got a bit skewed distribution of volcanic events, though I tried to correct for observational bias on earlier and smaller eruptions.

There are many outside factors that contribute to the problem like submarine volcanic activities, shifts in oceanic currents along with the decadal oscillation events responsible for El Mino and so on.

Also Volcanic events prior to 1900 likely had a large impact on the accuracy of sun spot number count.

The averaging reduces the signal from short - term natural variability, such as associated with El Niño events and volcanic eruptions, which can leave a clear mark on annual averages.

«A climate pattern may come in the form of a regular cycle, like the diurnal cycle or the seasonal cycle; a quasi periodic event, like El Niño; or a highly irregular event, such as a volcanic winter... A mode of variability is a climate pattern with identifiable characteristics, specific regional effects, and often oscillatory behavior... the mode of variability with the greatest effect on climates worldwide is the seasonal cycle, followed by El Niño - Southern Oscillation, followed by thermohaline circulation.»

The secondary effects of all of the above are very likely to bring on the biggest Earth quakes and largest volcanic eruptions observed for 200 years, the trends of these events have been rising since the early 1990s.

THE BIG PICTURE storm, earthquake & volcanic events come a lowerly 6th on the ladder of cause & effect & to study ocean temperature without finding out «why» under sea volcano eruptions happen isn't a sientific aproach in that book of mine.

And that this is reflected in individual model runs but as the timing of events such as El Nino / La Nina, volcanic eruptions etc. is unpredictable when projections are made based on ensemble runs then they will tend to average out and the projection will show a fairly steady trend.

Then throw in massive volcanic eruptions and huge continent wide brush fires caused by volcanoes or meteor showers (both theories I have seen in the literature) and you have many events that could cause climate disruption on a large scale.

In the event a Natural Disaster (i.e. volcanic eruption) causes an insured to be delayed 6 or more hours, there is coverage under Trip Delay benefits for 1) transportation to continue on the Covered Trip or to return home, 2) up to $ 100 / day for the Basic policy and $ 200 / day for the Enhanced policy for additional expenses if the delay requires an unplanned overnight stay and 3) unused non-refundable pre-paid expenses.