Sentences with phrase «volcanic rock on»

Previously on land, the Liberty was pushed underwater by the eruption's force, which also created huge trenches of volcanic rock on the seabed.

A central valley splits the island along the Santa Cruz Island fault, with volcanic rock on the north and older sedimentary rock on the south.

A central valley splits the island along the Santa Cruz Island Fault, with volcanic rock on the north and older sedimentary rock on the south.

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.

Whiffs of chemicals found in rocket fuel, a dark pyramid that resembles rare volcanic rocks on Earth and glassy particles bearing traces of water are among the Curiosity rover's finds in its first chemical investigation of Martian dirt.

It is clear from this data that the Salt Pond Peninsula is made up of the oldest known volcanic rocks on the island.

Australia's Jetstar will cancel 9 of 15 planned flights out of the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, the budget airline said on Friday, following a It is clear from this data that the Salt Pond Peninsula is made up of the oldest known volcanic rocks on the island.

There are volcanic rocks on east coast beaches.

The oceans are buffered by sediments and volcanic rocks on the sea floor and even in past times when atmospheric temperature and CO2 were far higher than at present, there were no acid oceans.

I loved the glistening snowcapped mountains, the jagged volcanic rocks on the mountains, the beautiful evergreen forests, and the bright blue waters of Crater Lake.

Not exact matches

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.

You can not be serious... if you are of the school of thought that God created the Earth, then you have to believe that he created the cycles that keep the Earth sustainable and able to provide life... storms move moisture and heat across the earths surface and stabilize our atmosphere, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions recycle the rock and minerals on the planet and make more usable land and add richness to soils.

New Zealand's largest city is all built on a huge volcanic field that was active as recently as 550 years ago or so and could theoretically blow up one day and be buried in a hellstorm of magma and rock.

The meteorite is made of volcanic rock, and the presence of water in it suggests that crustal rocks on Mars interacted with surface water that was delivered by volcanic activity, near - surface reservoirs or by impacting comets, Agee says.

Volcanic rocks found in the south Pacific spent at least 2.45 billion years on a journey into Earth's interior — and back again.

Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock (magma) cools and solidifies, with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive (plutonic) rocks or on the surface as extrusive (volcanic) rocks.

Earth's mantle, the large zone of slow - flowing rock that lies between the crust and the planet's core, powers every earthquake and volcanic eruption on the planet's surface.

«Geologists call it a rift because it's long and narrow,» explained Seth Stein, a co-author of the study, «but it's got much more volcanic rock inside it than any other rift on a continent, so it's also a LIP.

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.

Now, new research by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on what happens underground when CO2 is injected into basalt, illustrating precisely how effective the volcanic rock could be as an abatement agent for CO2 emissions.

Was it rock grinding on rock, ice groaning over ice, or, perhaps, hot gases and liquid rock forcing their way through cracks in a volcanic complex?

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.

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.

Glinting silver - gray in rocks and soils, it mixes with other minerals as it seeps into water supplies, drifts on the dusty plumes of volcanic eruptions and travels on the wind.

By measuring the abundance of an isotope of the noble gas argon in the rock or its crystals, Gazel and his colleague Michael Kunk of the U.S. Geological Survey found that the magma was much younger than the last known volcanic event on the East Coast — which occurred when the supercontinent of Pangaea slowly pulled apart into North America, Africa and South America some 200 million years ago, forming the Atlantic Ocean in the process.

He interprets Black Beauty as a volcanic rock that got exposed to a lot of water on the way up to the Martian surface.

Both types of structures are preserved in geyserite, a type of rock that is only found in and around freshwater hot springs in volcanic areas on land.

The proximity of these ULVZs below volcanic island chains has prompted theories suggesting that the giant reservoirs of molten rock feed the mantle plumes that create the islands on Earth's surface.

The bathers that gather every summer on the banks of the rivers of the mountain ranges of La Cabrera and El Teleno in León have little reason to suspect that the rocks that they can see near the water are of volcanic origin, over 460 million years old, when an emerging Iberian Peninsula was still on the coast of the continent of Gondwana, on the shore of the Rheic ocean.

Brought to Earth's surface in eruptions of deep volcanic material, these rocks hold clues as to what is going on deep beneath Earth's surface.

On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New ZealanOn July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealanon an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealanon the seafloor northeast of New Zealand.

Molten rock (or magma) has a strong influence on our planet and its inhabitants, causing destructive volcanic eruptions and generating some of the giant mineral deposits.

Those data showed increased infrared radiation coming from several volcanic regions and was interpreted by a NASA - funded team as evidence that the rocks there formed from lava flows within the past million years — recently, on a geological timescale.

The rock regatta Shortly after the 2006 eruption of an underwater volcano near the Pacific island of Tonga, researchers found a wide variety of organisms hitching a ride on volcanic pumice, Bryan told OurAmazingPlanet.

On the field trip and from our extensive rock collection, we compared modern to Miocene age (0 - 20 million years old) hot springs in New Zealand with ~ 3.5 billion year old deposits in Western Australia, and we also discussed parallels with some unusual knobby silica deposits at Columbia Hills and other hot spring sinters at El Tatio, Chile, and in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.

Gray rubble on the flanks of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii lie in contrast to the red volcanic rock behind them, and were deposited by a glacier that disappeared thousands of years ago.

A unique chemical signature suggests volcanic rocks recently collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic survived untouched for 4.5 billion years from before the melted mantle began firing up magma to form Earth's crust and plate tectonics then mixed that crust back into the mantle below.

On Earth, plate tectonics forces basaltic rock deep closer to the hot mantle until melting and mixing with water forms lighter granitic rock that eventually rises to the surface through volcanic activity to form continental crust (more).

The meteorite, ALH84001, began as a rather unremarkable piece of volcanic rock that formed about 4.5 billion years ago, on Mars.

Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast...

Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue.

World famous rock n» roll superstar Marianne (Tilda Swinton) and her boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) are enjoying a relaxing holiday on the serene volcanic island (it's a metaphor!)

A remake of sorts of the 1969 film La Piscine, A Bigger Splash tells the story of ageing rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) and her younger lover Paul (Schoenaerts) who, while vacationing on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, are unexpectedly joined by hirsute old flame Harry (Fiennes) and his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson).

There are over 150 beaches on the island ranging from fine, white sand to black volcanic rock from volcanic activity ranging back thousands of years.

Kona is the very special coffee grown on the dark volcanic lava rock slopes of Kona, with enviable consistent quality.

Scenic Highlights: One night on Santa Cruz, three nights cruising through the Galápagos National Park aboard the Xavier, visit to see the giant tortoises, watching three species of boobies and two species of frigatebirds nesting together at Punta Pitt, snorkelling with rays and sea turtles in the shadow of Kicker Rock, witnessing the towering volcanic cliffs and the dark - sand beaches of Santiago island.

On King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Resort lies a reconstructed temple surrounded by dark volcanic rocks that edge the water.

One oasis of calm on the north shore is Aruba's famous natural pool, hollowed out by the sea from volcanic rock and a great place to spend an afternoon splashing around in relative serenity.

Panoramic Terrace with partially covered and open - air seating plus two Whirlpool bathtubs on volcanic rock which make them unique and innovative.

Haystack Rock and the Needles are volcanic rock formations located approximately midway on the nearly four - mile stetch of Cannon BeRock and the Needles are volcanic rock formations located approximately midway on the nearly four - mile stetch of Cannon Berock formations located approximately midway on the nearly four - mile stetch of Cannon Beach.