Sentences with phrase «year old volcano»

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the are...

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the area - and, by comparison, receives little of the acclaim it deserves... The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg park opened in 1979 in one of the largest game resettlement projects in the history of South Africa, and possibly the most expensive as commercial farmers gave over land to be restocked with wildlife.

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In the early mornings, before the sun has moved above the misty rims of the old volcanoes, north of the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, 32 - year - old Frank Kahahane and his grizzled Uncle Libert are pushing a deep - hulled outrigger canoe off the beach.

A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock — called cryovolcanoes — might disappear over millions of years.

It is not only producing midplate volcanoes in the island chains above its location deep beneath the central Pacific but also has produced older volcanic chains now submerged in the northwest Pacific that erupted as the Pacific plate drifted over the central Pacific over the last 100 million years.

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and her colleagues deduced that lava flows on the flanks of several Venusian volcanoes appear unweathered, meaning that the flows must be no more than 2.5 million years old.

Australian soils are deficient in vital nutrients including nitrogen, phosphorus, and zinc, mainly because the region is so old, even in geologic time, and most of the country has not been revitalized by the soil - renewing activity of volcanoes or glaciers for tens of millions of years.

The country had already been on edge following the volcano's initial eruption this past weekend, spewing hot ash, gas and smoke into the air for several days, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,200 residents and leading to the death of a 92 - year - old woman who suffered a heart attack aboard a navy boat as she was being taken to Puerto Montt, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of the volcano.

Mole Hill itself is the remnant of the neck of a nearly 50 - million - year - old volcano that has now eroded away.

They were found in 3.5 - billion - year - old rocks in an extinct volcano in the Dresser Formation in the hot, dry, remote Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Jolliff and his team estimated the age of the moon's rare far side silicate volcanoes to be about 800 million years old.

Now, an international team of scientists, backed by a project led by Josep Antoni Alcover, from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC - UIB), has discovered the bones of this bullfinch, called Pyrrhula crassa, in a cave located in a 12,000 - year - old volcano in the southeast of the island.

In 2010, infrared imaging from several volcanoes seemed to indicate lava flows from thousands to a few million years old.

Spend the night in a 400 - year - old hacienda at the base of a volcano.

Lake Atitlan in Guatemala — the 1.8 - million - year - old 600 - meter - deep volcanic lake located a couple hours from Guatemala City — is usually the highlight of anyone's trip to the country, with its picturesque volcanoes towering over the lake, the small villages clustered along the shorelines and the chocolate shaman who seek spiritual enlightenment in cups of cocoa.

Geologically, Arenal is considered a young volcano and it is estimated to be less than 7,500 years old.

Take a short detour from the path to scramble up Paritutu Rock, a two million year old remnant of an active volcano, which offers magnificent views over New Plymouth, the Sugar Loaf Islands and backdrop of imposing Mount Taranaki (cloud cover permitting).

Visit the magnificent Blue Lake, a 5000 year old extinct volcano and some Limestone formations mother earth has created over millions of years.

A few years ago (2011), we went on a family trip to Hawaii and thought what better place to take almost two year - old Kavya, than an active volcano.

Made of 80 - year - old Javanese hand - carved teak, it's a perfect place for me to enjoy listening to the Sumatran monkeys, watch staff garden and marvel as the dark thunder clouds roll in down from the volcano which towers above.

Experience the excitement of visiting a 7,000 year old, active stratovolcano by visiting the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.

Take a short walk through the rainforest, step inside a 500 year old lava tube and feel the heat from volcanic steam vents as you explore the wonders of one of the world's most active volcanoes.

As landmasses go, Barbados is relatively young, at just under a million years old, and was created when two tectonic plates collided, causing a volcano to erupt and pushing up an ancient coral reef that dried out and started vegetating, eventually becoming the island it is today.

Arthurs seat is Edinburgh's spectacular 360 million years old dormant volcano.

James Turrell has completed his «Naked Eye Observatory» inside an extinct volcano in Arizona on top of a 400,000 - year - old crater that you can now go visit..

A section of the show is devoted to the artist's Roden Crater project, on which he has worked since 1974, converting a 400,000 - year - old dormant volcano near Flagstaff, Arizona, into a naked - eye astronomical observatory and a series of spaces designed to capture celestial phenomena.

This is a coincidence and you are only analyzing over the thirty year satellite era but viewing your Adjusted GISS LOTI data for 60S - 60N with Secondary Volcano Adjustment in figure 28, the rate I noticed given in the equation of 1/4 ºC / century matches nearly exactly what you get in the trend of the 350 year long record kept in good old central England with little Pacific influence.

Opportunities this year include park maintenance in Hells Canyon, Idaho (with transportation by jet - boat up the Snake River Canyon), forestry service at the New York Botanical Garden (a 50 - acre urban old - growth forest) and native - bird habitat restoration on the Big Island of Hawaii (with hiking in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park).

Crystal Leahy wanted a volcano experiment for 5 year old Finn's Mad Science party.