Sentences with phrase «volcanic system»

There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.

Fluid flow controls heat transfer in volcanic systems, which can be harnessed for geothermal energy production.

This in turn helps scientists understand the processes by which Earth's tectonic plates are built, as well as the deep plumbing of volcanic systems.

As a result, formation of the Yellowstone volcanic system remains mysterious.

The images show that the axial valley at 4,000 m water depth is blanketed by an extensive set of pyroclastic deposits, raising important questions regarding the accumulation and discharge of magmatic volatiles on such ridges and demonstrating that large - scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.

Today, volcanoes rarely make the news in the United States, even though the western half of the country is dotted with volcanic systems that could unleash eruptions many times more powerful than the Mount St. Helens disaster.

«Hydrothermal vents are volcanic systems located at the ocean floor.

Professor David Pyle from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, a co-author of the paper, said: «Now that we have demonstrated that this approach can work on a particular volcano, and given apatite is a mineral found in many volcanic systems, it is likely to stimulate interest in other volcanoes to see whether there is a similar pattern.

By allowing magma to flow into Lusi's sedimentary basin, the fault system could be an avenue for moving the entire volcanic system northward, said Stephen Miller, a professor of geodynamics at the University of Neuchâtel in Neuchâtel, Switzerland who was not connected to the study.

Now, more than 11 years after it first erupted, researchers may have figured out why the mudflows haven't stopped: deep underground, Lusi is connected to a nearby volcanic system.

Studying the connection of these two systems could help scientists to better understand how volcanic systems evolve, whether they erupt magma, mud or hydrothermal fluids.

The eruption in 1783 - 1784 from the fissures of Laki, part of the same volcanic system as Katla, cooled the temperatures in the northern hemisphere by 3º C.

Eric Cheng, director of aerial imaging at drone manufacturer DJI Innovations, has apparently thought about it as well, because he recently went to Iceland to capture the Bardabunga volcanic system using a DJI Phantom 2 drone equipped with a GoPro Hero 3 + camera.

The move came after authorities on Monday warned airlines about increased seismic activity at Iceland's largest volcanic system

The main goal of the study was to examine whether the initiation and subsequent development of the Yellowstone volcanic system was driven by a mantle plume.

These observations raise important questions about the accumulation and discharge of magmatic volatiles at ultraslow spreading rates on the Gakkel ridge5 and demonstrate that large - scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.

Prior to an eruption, gases — water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide — bubble out of the magma as it rises, adding more pressure to the volcanic system, she explains.

Other key questions: Why does the volcanic system generate five gigawatts of power instead of a lot more or a lot less?

Bardarbunga is Iceland's largest volcanic system, located under the ice cap of the Vatnajokull glacier in the southwest of Iceland.

«Most big sequences of earthquakes that we see are either a main shock and a lot of aftershocks or it might be right at the middle of a volcano in a volcanic system or geothermal system.

The proposal by geophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, links the existence of oceans early in Mars history to the rise of the solar system's largest volcanic system, Tharsis, and highlights the key role played by global warming in allowing liquid water to exist on Mars.

Scientists analyzed the seismic waves that travel through the volcano to understand the internal structure of the volcanic system.

Ice on your classic stratovolcano is thinner than ice in ice caps, such as in Iceland, and the melting alone will have less impact on the volcanic system than in areas where ice is thicker.

The current activity section includes monthly activity updates and news about the volcanic system, including a Monitoring Data section that displays both real - time and non real - time data.

In recent years there has been an increase in smaller earthquakes at Mt. Fuji which could indicate the movement of magma underground inside the volcanic system.