Sentence examples for extensive volcano from inspiring English sources

With geological superlatives, immense tectonic plates are shifting slowly, pulling the island apart, prompting thousands of earthquakes in the past week, and making one of Iceland's most extensive volcano systems, Bárðarbunga, rumble menacingly, buried below Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajökull.

In some cases, the mistakes made in the past have led to the development of extensive networks of volcano monitoring, and highly-qualified teams of researchers (Bertolaso et al. 2009; Clay et al. 1999).

For shallow or near-surface systems including those with crater lakes, the vaporization process will be extensive and the volcano's response potentially rapid in terms of phreatic activity.

Pressure from rising magma within the volcano caused extensive fissures and the growth of a bulge on the north flank of the peak.

It affected an area densely inhabited by Early Bronze Age human communities and resulted in the long-term abandonment of an extensive zone surrounding the volcano.

Combining the volcano's extensive submarine flanks (5000 m to the sea floor) and 4170 m subaerial height, Mauna Loa rises an impressive 9170 m from base to peak, greater than the 8848 m elevation of Mount Everest from sea level to its peak.

As a result, type 2 eruptions are commonly generated at these volcanoes from extensive vaporization of liquid water caused by magmatic input.

In the northern part (from Hokkaido to northern Honshu) of the east Japan volcanic zone, large-scale explosive volcanism has been recorded at caldera volcanoes, producing extensive tephra beds.

As a monogenetic volcanic field, it is a place with numerous small basaltic volcanoes and extensive lava flows.

Iceland has the youngest landscape of Europe, with its spectacular semi-active volcanoes, high waterfalls, extensive glaciers, and steam geysers.

That ~ 24% of potentially magmatic InSAR signals are centred over 5 km from the nearest volcano demonstrates that laterally extensive active magmatic zones are not exceptional.