Sentences with word «vulcanism»

Clearly there are sudden violent changes — like vulcanism.

Continental drift causes subduction, which in term causes vulcanism.

OTOH if you poke aound in Lovelocks Gaia stuff I think there is some speculation there about shifting loads of very large ice sheets might affect vulcanism — William]

And then it might be one of those positive feedback mechanisms, since I do believe vulcanism (at least) has been responsible in the past for warming the earth (I guess after the (cooling) dust / aerosols clear).

Ironically vulcanism is largely the result of gradual processes.

We see evidence in many worlds in the outer solar system for ice vulcanism, if you want to call it that, where you have a surface that is mostly ice and there seem to be eruptions and disturbances and fracturing of the surface.

The researchers, thus, conclude that an increase in carbon dioxide levels caused by extremely strong vulcanism was accompanied by a decrease of atmospheric oxygen.

Following the results of this study, the comparably low temperatures of the more recent past (i.e. the Ice Ages) may be attributed to the absence of large scale vulcanism events and an increase in atmospheric oxygen.

I still believe that increased vulcanism since 1988 has contributed to the Arctic melt; I can see a break point there with a steady declining trend since then on graphs of Arctic sea ice extent.

I mistakenly assumed that the Purkey and Johnson paper related to heat from marine vulcanism.

What caused the rapid warming from 1910 to 1945, given we can't realistically see rapid changes in anthropogenic or solar forcings during this period, which is also more or less free from major vulcanism?

Venus is the same size as Earth, and so its interior stays hot enough to support vulcanism.

Yet a simple calculation will show that less than 10 years of greenhouse gas forcing offset the difference between the peak and trough of the solar cycle, so this is not possible without widespread and sustained vulcanism — is he predicting this?

Work toward increasing the knowledge in detail about Venus continues, but there seems to have been more of a focus on vulcanism and the SO2 content of the atmosphere.

I'm not capable of making much of my reading of the graph, but it suggests that the cooling and warming effects of vulcanism are not thoroughly understood.

If retreating glaciers can have an impact (small) on vulcanism / seismic activity, then this might relate to climate change, if not to «GW.»

Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism.

And when it reaches the base of the Earth's crust, it then creates a lot of vulcanism.»

At the end of the route you can access the Center of Vulcanism.

Maybe one can reasonably infer fairly constant undersea vulcanism from on - land vulcanism.