Sentences with phrase «volcanic island chain»

Maia is a recent émigrée to the Azores, a volcanic island chain in the North Atlantic about 1,000 miles from anything in particular.

As a volcanic island chain still bubbling and gurgling with geothermal activity, the Azores — and especially São Miguel — have always been known for hot springs and mineral water spas.

University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three - dimensional scan of Earth's interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.

The proximity of these ULVZs below volcanic island chains has prompted theories suggesting that the giant reservoirs of molten rock feed the mantle plumes that create the islands on Earth's surface.

Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can ancient primordial signatures from the early solar system that have somehow survived billions of years.

Not exact matches

First author Kevin Konrad, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and his team have evaluated new rock dating of volcanoes in the Rurutu volcanic chain, including, for example, the Tuvalu volcanic islands in the Western Pacific.

It is not only producing midplate volcanoes in the island chains above its location deep beneath the central Pacific but also has produced older volcanic chains now submerged in the northwest Pacific that erupted as the Pacific plate drifted over the central Pacific over the last 100 million years.

Formed from volcanic eruptions, the Hawaiian archipelago, like other island chains, has a breathtaking variety of species — many found nowhere else on Earth — that evolved from a few hardy pioneers.

Fossils of single - celled algae survived a volcanic eruption to reveal the origins of an island chain.

The volcanic island Ostrov Shikotan is one of a long chain of such that lie north of the Japanese islands.

blaming the results reported in Nature on a» chain of heat - venting sub-sea islands», which given the continental trend, seems even more bizarre than invoking volcanic activity in the Arctic ocean

Between 3 million and 5 million years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions formed the Galápagos archipelago, a chain of 19 islands and dozens of islets.

Located about three hours by air from French Polynesia's main island of Tahiti and steeped in both history and adventure, the Marquesas is a lost - in - time island chain of dramatic volcanic cliffs shrouded in mystical clouds, and the final resting place of the South Pacific's most famous artist.

The Yasawa Islands — a chain of 20 volcanic islands northwest of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, — stretch for 50 miles (80 km) in the stunning South PIslands — a chain of 20 volcanic islands northwest of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, — stretch for 50 miles (80 km) in the stunning South Pislands northwest of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, — stretch for 50 miles (80 km) in the stunning South Pacific.

Located in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, St. Kitts is the first volcanic island in the chain.

WHERE YOU STAY: Our volunteering programs are based in the remote Yasawa Island group, consisting of a chain of 20 ancient volcanic islands.

A west - to - east volcanic chain divides the island in half.

Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change.

The island chain, which includes the 100 mile - long island of South Georgia itself - and more than a dozen volcanic islands of the South Sandwich - lies close to the cool Antarctic Current.

Hawaii, the chain of islands formed by volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago, was the last state to enter the Union in 1959.