Sentences with phrase «young volcanic island»

The birth and death of a young volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean may shed light on the origins of volcanoes in Mars» wetter past.

These geologically young volcanic islands are one of the most beautiful and sensitive regions of the world, with an incredible biodiversity that helped inspire the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin.

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The research team led by Dr. Jin - Young Lee confirmed in results from radiocarbon dating for carbonized wood (charcoal) found below the basaltic layer located in Sangchang - ri, Seogwipo - si, Jeju - do it dated back to 5,000 years ago; which means the time when the basalt on the upper layer was formed took place relatively recently, i.e. 5,000 years ago, and which demonstrates that the island has experienced a volcanic eruption fairly recently.

They form the Hobbs Glacier Formation, which lies between Cretaceous marine sediments and the younger James Ross Island Volcanic Group.

The team determined that the basalts from Baffin Island, formed by a 60 - million - year - old eruption from the mantle hot - spot currently located beneath Iceland, and the Ontong - Java Plateau, which was formed by an enormous volcanic event about 120 million years ago, contain slightly more tungsten - 182 than other young volcanic rocks.

A remake of sorts of the 1969 film La Piscine, A Bigger Splash tells the story of ageing rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) and her younger lover Paul (Schoenaerts) who, while vacationing on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, are unexpectedly joined by hirsute old flame Harry (Fiennes) and his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson).

Straddling the equator 1,000 km west of mainland Ecuador, the Galápagos Islands were pushed up out of the Pacific by volcanic eruptions around five million years ago; the younger islands remain very Islands were pushed up out of the Pacific by volcanic eruptions around five million years ago; the younger islands remain very islands remain very active.

When they bumped up against Isabela, the island was still relatively young, and the abundance of hard volcanic rock (and lack of soil) meant there wasn't much to eat on land.