Sentences with phrase «volcanic regions of»

First Vitruvius, an engineer for the Emperor Augustus, and later Pliny the Elder recorded that the best maritime concrete was made with ash from volcanic regions of the Gulf of Naples (Pliny died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompeii), especially from sites near today's seaside town of Pozzuoli.

Our commitment to producing the highest quality coconut oil means we sustainably harvest coconuts from the volcanic regions of the Philippines.

This Mars Global Surveyor image shows a martian crater that has been encroached by a field of dark, wind - blown sand dunes in the Syrtis Major volcanic region of the red planet.

Discover the volcanic region of Velay, its traditions and cultural treasures.

Not exact matches

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Against the plausible argument that the physical phenomena described in the narratives require a location in volcanic regions, it is countered that the same phenomena may be given a natural explanation as manifestations of violent storms.

He says the region is unique because its water is cleaner, and centuries of volcanic activity have left the soil rich in mineral content.

The Hualalai Estate started in 1996 in a region of Kona that is the ideal place to grow coffee because of mineral rich fertile volcanic soil and Kona tropical climate.

cool volcanic growing region of Coombsville.

Currently, volcanic activity is exhibited only via numerous geothermal vents scattered throughout the region, including the famous Old Faithful Geyser, but within the past two million years, it has undergone three extremely large explosive eruptions, up to 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St.

WHEN Michele Carbone first visited the Cappadocia region of Turkey, he was struck by the beauty of the volcanic landscape, sculpted by wind and rain into picturesque caverns and rock towers.

For example, Central Anatolia is described as an elevated, dry, cold plain of Lycaonia in Strabo's Geographika in 7 BC, and even cave paintings in the region dating to approximately 7000 BC record active volcanic eruptions on the plateau.»

Imagine, for example, a volcanic region on the otherwise cold surface of the early Earth.

The white line represents the present - day Mediterranean coastline, blue regions show the submarine area in case of a 2 km Mediterranean sea level lowering as it was proposed during the Messinian salinity crisis and red circles show the location of volcanic provinces whose activity was enhanced during the Messinian (the size of the circle is proportional the activity augmentation).

The team charted the spread of several plumes across the northern hemisphere as summer approached and noted that they seemed to originate above volcanic regions.

In fact, this study showed that all regions with above - average temperature are located near volcanic hot spots, which points to mantle plumes as the culprit for the excess volume of magma in these areas.

The drill's filters, which clean water being pumped out of the borehole, became clogged with black dust — «volcanic ashes from some past large volcanic eruption,» speculated Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied this region for two decades and co-leads the drilling project.

Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown.

«Here's an archipelago of volcanic islands that are broadly active over a large region, and the plume is almost decoupled from the plate motion itself,» Toomey said.

But even before then, the Quitobaquito pupfish had broken from the main branch of desert pupfish because a volcanic eruption altered the drainage of the region and cut off the southern population from the rest.

Ward and Delph calculated their plutonic - to - volcanic ratio by comparing the volume of regions where seismic waves travel extremely slowly beneath volcanically active regions, indicating some melt is present, with the volume of rock deposited on the surface by volcanoes.

In the first study of its kind, scientists sought to better understand how big volcanic eruptions, which can trigger a shortage of rainfall in many regions of the world, can impact on rivers.

Although the South America plate exhibits a chain of active volcanism resulting from the subduction and partial melting of the Nazca oceanic lithosphere along most of the arc, these regions of inferred shallow subduction correlate with an absence of volcanic activity.

This picture could finally explain the root cause of some of the world's most intense volcanic regions.

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.

The best explanation for these observations, says Butler, is that the radar - absorbing regions are vast plains of volcanic ash or pumice.

The islands are part of the Pacific ring of fire, a highly active volcanic region that regularly throws up new islands.

Huge regions with epic volcanic explosions are now blamed for four of Earth's «big 5» mass extinctions

Indeed, the era between 65,000 and 25,000 years ago, toward the end of the Paleolithic, was a time of major volcanic eruptions, along with extremes of climate that included rapid shifts in temperature accompanied by alternately creeping and contracting glaciers across many regions of Eurasia.

The new findings suggest that after the lime was consumed via these pozzolanic chemical reactions (so named for the volcanic ash found in the Pozzuoli, or Naples, region of Italy), a new period of mineral growth began.

WoldeGabriel coauthored the paper and his role was to characterize the volcanic ash and provide chemistry for local and regional correlation of the ashes sandwiching the fossils from Ethiopia's Chorora area, a region where copious volcanic eruptions and earthquakes entombed fossils recently uplifted via ground motion and erosion.

The combined effects of pyroclastic flows, volcanic ashes and tsunamis had disastrous results in the region.

The team suggests that this may instead be due to flexing of the lithosphere (the outermost layer of the planet) that occurred when the volcanic Tharsis region formed.

In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.

The strange hummocky texture of the mountain flanks may represent volcanic flows of some sort that have travelled down from the summit region and onto the plains beyond, but why they are hummocky, and what they are made of, we don't yet know.»

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

At the bulleye's center is a region of what appears to be deposits of volcanic material, a sign that the center of the basin may have been covered by a volcanic flow sometime soon after the SPA impact.

Puy Lentils or French Green Lentils are a type of lentil grown in the thin volcanic soils of the Le Puy region in France.

Indonesia's province of West Java covers roughly one third of the entire island — you guessed it, the western bit — and this tremendously diverse environment encompasses high - density urban zones, dramatic volcanic peaks, rich colonial heritage, impressive national parks, bounteous agricultural regions, beautiful beaches, and is home to the proud Sundanese people who are endowed with unique cultural and artistic traditions.

• Getting out among the vines by renting a bicycle or taking a farm tour • Savoring the region's culinary hot spots — supported by locally grown, organic, and sustainable produce • Immerse yourself at a wine - country spa, featuring swanky vinotherapy sanctuaries or bubbling tubs of volcanic mud.

«While the sun is shining and there is little sign of volcanic ash in the southern regions of Bali, evidence of volcanic ash at higher altitudes on aviation approach and departure paths has prompted the decision to close the airport,» Bali Tourism Board Chairman Ida Bagus Agung Partha Adnyana said in a statement.

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

We travel up the scenic Kapiti Coast towards the Taranaki region — home to wonderful beaches, crashing waves and the spectacular Mount Taranaki, one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world.

It is located in a less traveled region of northwestern Costa Rica, amidst sunny jungles and volcanic mountains.

The acclaimed onsite Season restaurant, located at Peppers Salt Resort & Spa, has won many accolades for its celebrated Chefs and seasonal menu, dedicated to fresh produce from the volcanic soils of the region.

The national parks and ranges of the volcanic region vary from palm filled sub-tropical to cool temperate rainforests.

Now based in Northern New South Wales with his wife and two boys, Craig is welcoming their new season in Kingscliff and enjoying the luxury of creating locally - inspired meals using the rich volcanic produce found in the Tweed region.

Katmai was established as a Preserve in 1918 to protect the region surrounding Mount Katmai and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes that was devastated by the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century.

Today, Katmai is still a very active volcanic region, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a visual and scientific wonder.

The Picos Region extends from the shadow of the ancient volcano of the Água de Pau Massif (known locally for the lake that rests within its volcanic crater: Lagoa do Fogo) until the area around the Sete Cidades caldera.