Sentences with phrase «volcanic rock erupting»

Nick - named «the black pearl of Mediterranean», a reference to the dark volcanic rock erupting from the ground, the island is accessible by a small plane which departs daily from Palermo, its slim silhouette cutting through the skies being the only disturbance to the quiet island life.

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Ground - based remote sensing through ultraviolet and infrared spectroscopy is used to measure the composition of a volcanic plume, the column of hot volcanic ash, gas, and rock emitted when the volcano erupts.
The floating rock fragments are then found among the erupted volcanic rocks, instead of inside the frozen magma chambers as previously expected.
The latest theory is that a giant, lopsided plume of hot rock tore through the lunar interior some 3.5 billion years ago, smothering the Earth - facing side with enormous volcanic flows that erupted from the interior.
One way is extrusion, in which magma erupts through volcanic craters and cracks in the Earth's surface; the other is intrusion, whereby magma forces itself between or through existing formations of rock, without reaching the surface.
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Most of the time when a volcano erupts, it does not send avalanches of fifteen - hundred degree surging volcanic rock across the landscape, completely burying whatever might lay in its path.
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