Sentences with phrase «volcanic lake»

Wander the colourful streets and enjoy the colonial charm of Leon and Granada before spending a few days exploring the stunning volcanic lake island of Ometepe with beaches and jungle for downtime or adventure.

Lake Atitlan goes above and beyond anybody's expectations: a gorgeous volcanic lake surrounded by yet more volcanoes, it his hiking and kayaking paradise.

Palawan's charm, although difficult to penetrate with thick jungle mountains and strikingly sharp limestone rock faces, boasts of ecotourism sites such as: El Nido and its towering marble cliffs and white sand beaches; the Underground River in Puerto Princesa where tourists can take a boat trip under limestone cliffs and sepulchral chambers along a subterranean river; Cayangan Lake in Coron, a hidden lagoon where you scramble uphill to a dazzling volcanic lake; and the Tubbataha Reef Marine Park.

This volcanic lake is ringed by a collection of small traditional Mayan villages around the shoreline which are all unique and interesting to visit.

Lake Atitlan is a beautiful volcanic lake in the country that is ringed by a bunch of small indigenous Mayan villages along the shorelines.

Renowned for its stunning natural beauty, hot springs and superb climate, Bled is located on a volcanic lake in the shadow of the medieval castle providing unparalleled mountain views.

Lake Myvatn — This volcanic lake in northern Iceland is a popular place to visit in the north.

This is the largest volcanic lake in the world and estimated around 70,000 years old.

Cruise on a volcanic lake plus many other stops of beauty.

Lake Toba (Danau Toba in Indonesian) is the largest volcanic lake in the world, formed by a cataclysmic eruption around 70,000 years ago.

I spent just under 2 weeks there, staying on an island in Lake Toba, the biggest volcanic lake in the world, trekking around Bukit Lawang and seeing orangutans, and then doing some incredible scuba diving in Pulau Weh.

Situated on a ridge across a volcanic lake from the active volcano Mt. Batur, Kintamani offers some of the most stunning scenery to be found in Bali and is a must - see for most tourists.

A volcanic lake is bound to have some interesting / spiritual qualities to it, like bubbling Mayan hot springs and hippie meditation gardens.

Guest of La Iguana Perdida are able to learn to dive in a volcanic lake, swim or kayak, study Spanish with local teachers, hike to waterfalls, or scale volcanic peaks.

Lake Atitlan in Guatemala — the 1.8 - million - year - old 600 - meter - deep volcanic lake located a couple hours from Guatemala City — is usually the highlight of anyone's trip to the country, with its picturesque volcanoes towering over the lake, the small villages clustered along the shorelines and the chocolate shaman who seek spiritual enlightenment in cups of cocoa.

An important component of the Pacific «Ring of Fire», Mount Batur and its double calderas with a crescent - shaped volcanic lake (7 km long, 1.5 km wide) and located 1031m above sea level was called the finest caldera in the world.

It left behind a giant caldera that formed the largest volcanic lake in the world: Lake Toba, seen here.

That volcanic lake had naturally accumulated two million metric tons of carbon dioxide in its cold depths; one night it spontaneously vented, displacing the oxygenated air, and suffocated more than 1,000 nearby villagers.

The reason is that CO2 belching from a volcanic lake creates conditions very different from those of the gas escaping from a wellhead or seeping into a basement, explains Julio Friedmann, leader of the carbon management program at Lawrence Livermore.

The reason is that CO2 belching from a volcanic lake creates conditions very different from those of the gas escaping from a wellhead or seeping into a basement, explains Julio Friedmann, leader of the carbon management program at LLNL.

The three - hour drive from Denpasar takes you through spectacular scenery — volcanic lakes, mountains, and aromatic coffee and clove plantations — before ending at this intimate, four - villa property overlooking a sweeping white beach.

The state is home to mountaintop pagodas, volcanic lakes, mysterious caves and a vast array of ethnic groups.

The homeland of Komodo dragons, the enchanted Kelimutu tri-colored volcanic lakes, and one of world's best dive sites.

Make your way north of the coast on the Kanawinka Geotrail and explore the lush green farmland peppered with volcanic lakes and craters.

The Great Barrier Reef, Daintree Rainforests, palm - lined beaches, granite gorges, tumbling waterfalls, ancient tree ferns, coral cays, islands, rivers, streams, volcanic lakes and savannah plains are just some of the many features of this diverse, naturally stunning part of Australia.

Not exact matches

That includes visits to World Record hot spots in the U.S. such as the World's Tallest Outdoor Rock - Climbing Wall in Reno, Nevada; Bowling Green, Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, which is home to the world's longest known cave system; the World's Largest Living Tree — a giant sequoia named General Sherman — in California's Sequoia National Park; and the volcanic - formed Crater Lake in Oregon, which at 1,943 feet is America's deepest lLake in Oregon, which at 1,943 feet is America's deepest lakelake.

Workers progressed across the 29 - mile Rift through volcanic rock and over steam vents on the valley floor, and then descended from a summit of over 8,000 feet to Lake Victoria in the valley below — a feat requiring 11,845 running feet of viaducts, some up to 881 feet long and more than 110 feet above the earth.

There is a volcanic crater lake up there — one that until pretty recently people used as a giant natural hot tub, at least until seismic activity intensified and folks realized that swimming in a volcano's simmering crater lake might not be the best idea.

Crater Lake is a memorable and gorgeous place to visit and you can stop at many of the information booths to learn more about the creation and conservation of this volcanic landmark.

This sprawling city of a million people, built on and out of volcanic rock on the shores of an exploding lake has become synonymous — insofar as it comes to the attention of the wider world at all — with catastrophic refugee crises, ecological devastation, and looting and pillaging.

Travel by boat across Lake Ashi, an enormous volcanic crater born out of an eruption, 3,000 years ago.

Both are ports on the shores of Lake Ashi, which is an enormous volcanic crater created by an eruption 3,000 years ago.

«We've been through an obsession with the weird and wonderful, sampling volcanic springs, subterranean frozen lakes and nuclear reactors and now we're obsessed with the microbiome and its role in human health.

Biologist Sonja Wedmann, then at the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Bonn, analyzed the fossil after it was dug up from oil shale deposits in what was once a small lake formed by volcanic activity.

The volcanic rocks of the 1.1 billion - year - old Midcontinent Rift play a prominent role in the natural beauty of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior.

A layer of ash buried in the underlying sediment confirms that Mono Lake predates a volcanic blast 760,000 years ago that created the nearby and still - active Long Valley Caldera.

Modern scientists identify and measure past eruptions using layers of volcanic debris found in ice cores, lake sediments, and other undisturbed soils.

Scientists study these lakes» chemistry to monitor and learn more about volcanic activity.

«As far as we know, this is the most acidic lake and groundwater system ever found outside of a volcanic area,» she says, adding that there's no evidence of ancient volcanism in the U.S. Midwest.

The sediments at the site of discovery are lake sediments with embedded volcanic layers.

«The young and completely isolated crater lakes along the Central American Volcanic Arc in Nicaragua provide an ideal setting to study parallel evolution.

The tracks were made in a layer of volcanic soil at Fossil Lake, a site first excavated by UO science professor Thomas Condon in 1876 and today administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

Measurements show that CO2 appears to be building up in the lake at about 5 million cubic metres a year, he says, while no evidence has been found of a volcanic eruption.

About 50,000 years ago, a pile of volcanic rubble buried a conifer forest in the southern Lake District of Chile.

NASA has selected three potential landing sites for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover: an ancient lake, a past volcanic hotbed and an early hot - spring site.

Arriving by helicopter, fly - camp on a volcanic island, surrounded by the jade waters of Lake Turkana

Based on the existing age model (24), we targeted a search for cryptotephra (subtle horizons of volcanic glass shards not visually apparent or detectable using remote sensing methods) on the depth interval of 20 — 40 m below lake floor (MBLF) in drill sites MAL05 - 1C and MAL05 - 2A in search of the YTT.

Archaea are single - celled microorganisms that inhabit some of Earth's most extreme environments, such as volcanic hot springs, oil wells and salt lakes.

The new work adds to the diversity of types of wet environments for which evidence exists on Mars, including rivers, lakes, deltas, seas, hot springs, groundwater, and volcanic eruptions beneath ice.

Nor did volcanic activity provide the necessary heat, because Antarctica has few volcanoes, and most are not near those lakes.