Sentence examples for quantities of lava from inspiring English sources
The first episode occurred during the early and middle parts of the Cenozoic Era, when immense quantities of lava were poured over the land.
The Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland NVHH), situated adjacent and to the east of Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, is the source of the immense quantities of lava, ignimbrite, air fall ash, and volcaniclastic debris that occur interbedded in the Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary deposits in the Laetoli and Olduvai areas.
And what those dates proved was that an unconscionable quantity of lava erupted in what geologists call a ridiculously short period of time – about 300,000 years or less - and yes, right before the mass extinction.
At 1,247m it's not even the tallest volcano on Hawaii (it's dwarfed by the 4,169m Mauna Loa) but it has been belching out huge quantities of deep crimson, slow-moving lava almost continuously since 1983.
Large plinian eruptions which emit lava in quantities of about, the most recent of which overwhelmed Pompeii, have happened after periods of inactivity of a few thousand years.
For tens of thousands of years leading up to the extinction, the oozing lavas released enormous quantities of carbon dioxide.
Some brilliance, lots of lava.
The stove is a slab of lava.
Upthrusts of lava punctuate this slope.
