Sentences with phrase «volcanic plains»

Wandering through our volcanic wonders of Craters to Lakes (30 mins from Bellevue) The Mt Leura Lookout at Camperdown gives the visitor a perspective of the cones and crater lakes that dot the world's third largest volcanic plain.

A similar process may be what created our moon's dark volcanic plains, called maria, such as the Sea of Tranquility.

This vast volcanic plain appears to contain some of the youngest lava flows on the moon, as well as rocks ejected by impacts that could be parts of the buried lunar crust.

Yet scientists were unable to establish limits on how far into the past this volcanic activity may have occurred, or how much of the planet's surface may have been resurfaced by very old volcanic plains.

Despite the lyrical names, Jade Rabbit («Yutu») is a protean and workmanlike six - wheeled rover and the Bay of Rainbows is an arid volcanic plain.

When you see them out in the wild, in their habitat, they look like they belong there, whether they're a hulking stone - covered Urugaan stomping around volcanic plains, or an elder dragon sitting majestically atop a mountain.

Option Two — Travel inland to the Great Ocean Road hinterland, a region of contrasts from lush temperate forests to massive volcanic plains, soaring cliffs, rugged mountains giving way to rolling hills with pine plantations, wide expanses of farmland around ancient landmarks from blunted caps of extinct volcanoes to floating islands and massive lakes.

With the fertile soil of the world's third largest volcanic plain, Birregurra's harvest has a freshness and honesty rarely found in modern products.

NASA deliberately crashed the MESSENGER spacecraft into the planet last week; during its final year of life, the craft repeatedly skirted close to the surface, detecting magnetized terrain, such as over the volcanic plains shown in blue here (blue denotes low elevations and red, high elevations).

It was in 2010 that the team began growing two native grass and 27 wildflower species from the volcanic plains in four 18 - square - metre plots on top of Melbourne's Pixel building.

The plants form unique communities on the volcanic plains of Victoria, but are in severe decline because of agriculture.

Of greater immediate interest, Dr. Thompson and his team have expanded on previous research involving long - dead plants emerging from the melting ice at the edge of Quelccaya, a huge, flat ice cap sitting on a volcanic plain 18,000 feet above sea level.