Sentences with phrase «volcanic island in»

Coined as an island born of fire, the island province of Camiguin is a pear - shaped volcanic island in the northern tip of Mindanao.

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

We chose four varied destinations, deciding to spend a few days in each; a colorful colonial city, a peaceful volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua, a tiny and secluded Caribbean island and a hip but relaxing surf village on the Pacific coast.

Montserrat, a volcanic island in the Caribbean, isn't the most popular destination to visit.

And then there was St Kitts — a beautiful volcanic island in the middle of the Caribbean.

They were shipping off to Ometepe, a large volcanic island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua.

As the Pacific Plate continues to move west - northwest, the Island of Hawaii will be carried beyond the hotspot by plate motion, setting the stage for the formation of a new volcanic island in its place.

A 240 - foot - tall volcanic island in the South Pacific was still venting sulfur gases in December 2006, four months after it emerged from the sea.

But circumstantial evidence had suggested otherwise: The wasps somehow traveled hundreds of kilometers to colonize a formerly lifeless volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean called Anak Krakatoa, and they have been snarled in nets attached to a research airplane flying over open water in the Pacific.

The birth and death of a young volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean may shed light on the origins of volcanoes in Mars» wetter past.

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.

An outcropping of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic, the Azores are a territory of Portugal, about 1,000 miles off the European continent.

The Azores are an autonomous region of Portugal, comprising nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic.

Cape Verde is a country spanning an archipelago of ten volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Salina is one of the Aeolian islands, a cluster of seven volcanic islands in the far south of Italy.

Not exact matches

Depending on which side of the island you're on, you can dig your toes in either plush white sand or black volcanic beaches.

W. H. Bramble Airport, named for William Henry Bramble, chief minister of Montserrat, was the only way of flying to and from the Caribbean island until it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1997.

And we see volcanic islands that formed in the 1950s to date to almost 1 million years old.

It was not long before wild peppers were thriving in rich, volcanic soils throughout the islands.

The island is one of the best places to peer into the history of Earth's magnetic field because its fluctuations are recorded in the ancient volcanic rock.

The study also showed that volcanic hot spots along the ridge — volcanoes near Iceland as well as the islands of Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and elsewhere — all sit above warm spots in Earth's mantle.

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.

The colonisation of the Canary Islands started shortly after, and it basically moved stepwise from the east to the west in line with the decreasing age of the volcanic iIslands started shortly after, and it basically moved stepwise from the east to the west in line with the decreasing age of the volcanic islandsislands.

In the summer of 2008 Mount Kasatoshi in Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of AlaskIn the summer of 2008 Mount Kasatoshi in Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of Alaskin Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of Alaska.

By FRED PEARCE Volcanic rocks in mid-Atlantic, coral atolls, white - beached Caribbean tourist traps, Pacific islands so remote that even the Polynesians have abandoned them — the leftovers of the British empire are a curious mixture of the military and the forgotten.

A meandering stream of volcanic lava on Hawaii's Big Island has resumed its slow march through forest lands toward residential communities in its path, sending up heavy smoke as it burns trees

The link between crust thickness and age prompted two possible explanations — both related to the fact that hotter mantle tends to make more magma: Mantle hot spots — highly volcanic regions, such as the Hawaiian Islands and Iceland — could have thickened the old crust by covering it in layers of lava at a later time.

A volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea on Friday sent smoke and ash spewing high over the South Pacific island nation, leading some aircraft to alter their flight paths.

Then, in 1964, rock climbers found the dried - out remains of a giant stick insect on Ball's Pyramid, an 1,800 - foot - tall spire of volcanic rock 14 miles from Lord Howe Island.

Lead author Dr Steve Roberts from BAS says: «When we first examined the sediment cores we were struck by the intense smell of the guano in some layers and we could also clearly see the volcanic ash layers from nearby Deception Island.

In 1939, leading Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos pinned the blame on a colossal volcanic eruption on the island of Thera, about 70 miles north of Crete, that occurred about 1600 B.C..

Alberto Saal of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues re-examined lunar volcanic rocks collected in the 1970s during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions.

And Goff thinks the threat is highest in the Pacific, where there are thousands of volcanic islands.

Plant samples preserved underneath these outlet glaciers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic led NSF - funded researchers to conclude that the Earth's Little Ice Age began in 1275 and was triggered by repeated volcanic eruptions that cooled the atmosphere.

Volcanic in origin, geothermal energy supplies 20 percent of the Hawaii Big Island's energy needs.

«Volcanic islands are some of the simplest landforms to make,» said first author Jim Garvin, chief scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

New Zealand scientists mapped the Havre volcano, a caldera nearly three miles (4.5 kilometers) across on the seafloor northeast of the North Island of New Zealand, using shipboard sonar instruments in 2002 and again immediately after the eruption in 2012, revealing the presence of new volcanic material on the seafloor.

By COLIN TUDGEThere are three powerful reasons why the name of Partula — small land snails from the high volcanic Pacific islands — is writ large in late 20th - century biology.

Coral reefs, growing over the millenia on top of subsiding volcanic islands, now keep entire nations in the Pacific above the waves.

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.

Suddenly you're standing on an iceberg in the middle of a group of playful Adélie penguins on rocky, volcanic Franklin Island (above right).

This article appeared in print under the headline «Elusive volcanic island bird revealed to be the largest canary»

The new species, which can grow to well over a meter in length, was named Varanus semotus, a Latin reference to the remoteness and isolation of the relatively small and partly volcanic island where the lizard was found.

Mark Smale at Landcare Research in New Zealand and his team surveyed 15 of these fields in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of North Island.

The research team led by Dr. Jin - Young Lee confirmed in results from radiocarbon dating for carbonized wood (charcoal) found below the basaltic layer located in Sangchang - ri, Seogwipo - si, Jeju - do it dated back to 5,000 years ago; which means the time when the basalt on the upper layer was formed took place relatively recently, i.e. 5,000 years ago, and which demonstrates that the island has experienced a volcanic eruption fairly recently.

Many monogenetic volcanic fields occur in high - density, populated areas and tourist destinations (e.g. Canary Islands, Auckland City, Mexico City, Izu - Tobu volcanic field), and thus even a small eruption can have a major economic and societal impact.

In Jeju, Korea, a place emerging as a world - famous vacation spot with natural tourism resources, a recent study revealed a volcanic eruption occurred on the island.

As the name suggests, this species was known only from Lord Howe Island, a small volcanic island situated in the Tasman Sea some 800 km north east of Sydney, AustIsland, a small volcanic island situated in the Tasman Sea some 800 km north east of Sydney, Austisland situated in the Tasman Sea some 800 km north east of Sydney, Australia.

Washington, DC — Plumes of hot magma from the volcanic hotspot that formed Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean rise from an unusually primitive source deep beneath the Earth's surface, according to new...

But a third species, M. nesiota, lives on a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean known as the Comoros.