Sentences with phrase «wide caldera»
The 9 - mile wide caldera of the volcano is located deep underneath a glacier.
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The inside 7.5 wide caldera, which was organized in the midst of emplacement of the Bali (or Ubud) ignimbrite, has been dated at around 23,670 and 28,500 years back.
The dramatic beauty of the 6 km wide caldera is undoubtedly worth a visit.
The researchers deployed a robot to measure the depth of the 4 - kilometer - wide caldera.
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Over the past 17 million years or so, successive eruptions have flooded lava over wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotspot.
At the Long Valley caldera, Tarduno quizzes students about the lava flows they have seen and the curve of surrounding landmasses until they realize they are standing in a dormant supervolcano roughly 20 miles long, 11 miles wide and covered in snow.
Traces of an intensely volcanic history dot Io's surface — some calderas are 120 miles wide.
Once lava emerged, movement began along a newly formed crack, or dike, that sloped downward and outward inside the 2 - mile - wide by 5 - mile - long caldera.
An important component of the Pacific «Ring of Fire», Mount Batur and its double calderas with a crescent - shaped volcanic lake (7 km long, 1.5 km wide) and located 1031m above sea level was called the finest caldera in the world.
The huge caldera measuring over 10 × 13 kilometers wide was formed over 25.000 years ago when the Batur Volcano exploded.