Sentences with phrase «years in the volcano»

«I spent 25 years in the volcano,» he says.

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The team reports that the volcano has been stirring for 67 years, with two - year periods of unrest in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s giving rise to small earthquakes — a pattern that was also seen in the lead - up to the 1538 eruption.

A couple of thousand years ago (and really up until a few hundred years ago, or less than that even, in some fields) there was no explanation for lightning, thunder, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc..

Seashells are found in strange places because sea levels changed over millions of years and because of geological shifts such as earthquakes and volcanoes.

And we are guaranteed the final «ph - oto» will take place in 3 - 5 billion years when Earth is absorbed by the expanding Sun as - suming we are not wiped out by a wayward asteroid, nuclear war or a few giant volcanoes.

I was struck by a remark Paul Haggis made, that other religions give you all their most basic beliefs in the first few minutes, while with Scientology you can be years into it and hundreds of thousands of dollars down before they get around to telling you about Xenu and the volcano people and so on.

If billions of people tell me not to put my house at the base of a volcano, and I tell them «I don't believe in volcanoes» and after 70 years it erupts, do I deserve to be burned by that lava?

That volcano's eruption moved seven cubic miles of sand within minutes, and cut canyons in soft rock within years.

I made a volcano cake last year for my son's 5th birthday using layers of sponge cake and flavored whipped cream molded into a chinois strainer lined in plastic.

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.

Husband # 2 was a violent volcano, dormant for years with emotions buried inside before he finally let things erupt in the «safe» environment of counseling.

I love doing this - we made a volcano in the sand box this year!

He recently sent a drone over the erupting Lusi mud volcano in Java, Indonesia, to sample gas, water and mud — something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Based on the geography and the age of volcanoes in these three chains, researchers can look into the geological past and see how the three hotspots have moved relative to each other over millions of years.

A study by Iain Stewart, Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth, explores changes in the volcano's structures which began around 130,000 years ago.

Volcano - fueled holes in Earth's ozone layer 252 million years ago may have repeatedly sterilized large swaths of forest, setting the stage for the world's largest mass extinction event.

Professor Stewart, who fronted the BBC documentary Volcano Live in 2013, said: «Mount Etna is arguably one of the most iconic volcanoes on the planet, but 100,000 years ago there would have been no cone - like structure such as you see today.

The walking trails around Owakudani lead to steam vents and bubbling pools and the eggs sold locally are boiled in the volcano's natural hot springs and are said to prolong life by seven years.

Cambridge University Press, 2011 Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer of the University of Cambridge surveys the biggest eruptions of the past quarter of a billion years to illustrate how profoundly volcanoes have shaped our world and how we might apply the lessons of the past to managing disastrous eruptions in the future.

The deferred list includes a new, $ 1.08 billion competition by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure grants to begin 3 years down the road, as well as modest funding toward buying a 15 % to 20 % stake in the colossal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built in a dormant Hawaii volcano by 2024.

The reservoir, found on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, is part of an igneous rock formation created 60 million years ago when volcanoes unleashed a torrent of fast - flowing, deep - earth lava.

They measured the eggs, beaks, et cetera, of finches on Daphne Island, a small, hilly former volcano top in Ecuador's Galápagos, year after year.

A topographical map of the area around the Martian volcano Arsia Mons shows evidence (inset) of glacier ice melting that could have resulted in habitable reservoirs 210 million years ago.

Volcanoes «change from year to year, and minute to minute, creating a dynamic environment unavailable in most geologic research.

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.

This chain arose in the last 80 million years as one volcano after another popped up over the persistent hot spot.

Their creation for the contest is this little brown planet, which is covered in pockmarks and volcanoes from its turbulent teen years.

In 2011, after four years of unusually strong seismic activity around Mt. Paektu, DPRK scientists sought international colleagues to help them determine the volcano's current state and its potential for an eruption.

THE eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland shut down air travel across much of Europe for five days last year, and Grímsvötn has just threatened a repeat performance.

In a few years, the volcano will spew just 10 percent as much mud as it does today, scientists predict.

Humans inhabited rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra between 73,000 and 63,000 years ago — shortly before a massive eruption of the island's Mount Toba volcano covered South Asia in ash, researchers say.

In his presentation, Holdren urged broader efforts to build the science and technology pipeline, too, through events such as the White House science fairs, to uplift student - innovators whose projects in recent years have moved far beyond baking - soda volcanoeIn his presentation, Holdren urged broader efforts to build the science and technology pipeline, too, through events such as the White House science fairs, to uplift student - innovators whose projects in recent years have moved far beyond baking - soda volcanoein recent years have moved far beyond baking - soda volcanoes.

Seismologists proposed some 30 years ago that stationary plumes of hot rock in the mantle occasionally punched through the crust to produce volcanoes, which, as the crust moved, generated island chains such as the Galapagos, Cape Verde and Canary islands.

At their peak about 150 million years ago, the vents in the Arsia Mons» caldera probably collectively produced about 1 to 8 cubic kilometers of magma every million years, slowly adding to the volcano's size.

Before they descended, their sonar revealed a new feature in Vailulu'u's massive crater, a volcano — Nafanua — that was absent four years earlier.

Since the volcano is still active, bunker - like concrete shelters are provided around the crater, built after a dozen people perished in a sudden eruption some 50 years ago.

ADVANCES: Since volcano monitoring began a century ago, scientists have made significant strides in understanding volcanic behavior, especially in recent years.

The tremendous amount of magma that was ejected from Mt. Aso millions of years ago caused the surface of the volcano to cave in, leaving behind the world's largest above - ground active caldera — the circumference of the caldera is around 80 miles.

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.

In the past, radar images of the majority of the world's volcanoes were only acquired a few times a year, but seismological data indicate that the duration of unrest before an eruption might be as short as only a few days.

A year after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption paralyzed air travel in much of Europe, another Icelandic volcano blew its top.

Dr Juliet Biggs and colleagues in the School of Earth Sciences, with collaborators from Cornell, Oxford and Southern Methodist University, looked at the archive of satellite data covering over 500 volcanoes worldwide, many of which have been systematically observed for over 18 years.

But in recent years researchers have learned how to place sensors on or near volcanoes like Axial.

They calculate that, around 3.9 billion years ago, erupting volcanoes emitted huge quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which eventually settled and dissolved in water as sulfidic anions — specifically, sulfites and bisulfites.

Fourteen hundred years ago a central American volcano erupted, encasing an entire village in ash.

Though it hasn't risen from slumber in nearly 70,000 years, many wonder when Yellowstone volcano will awaken and erupt again.

In successful tests last year the Wave Glider provided real - time surveillance of the volcano.

Earlier this year, Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's largest island piped up with explosive eruptions and toxic sulfur dioxide emissions, sending U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists scrambling to predict the volcano's next move and whether neighboring villagers would be in harm's way.

Nearly two miles deep in the ocean, a hundred miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, scientists during two cruises a year apart used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of sea floor made of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.