Sentence examples for volcano flanks from inspiring English sources

As well as encouraging magma to rise to the surface, leading to increased volcanic activity, removal of ice can also destabilise steep volcano flanks, making hazardous landslides more likely".

Analysis of palaeomagnetic directions and lithofacies architecture suggest that these deposits were likely initiated as a closely-spaced succession of block-and-ash flows (BAFs) that rapidly cooled as they descended the volcano flanks.

In the reconstruction, surface fitting was applied preferably to planèzes (i.e. triangular facets of original volcano flanks) and quasi-planar surfaces, QPS (those occurring on planèzes, or scattered, slightly eroded portions derived from original cone surfaces) with the help of red relief image map (RRIM) analysis.

Most of the erupted material was deposited on the upper volcano flanks.

Non-magmatic tectonic unrest can escalate into non-magma related seismic activity, or earthquake triggered tsunamis at subaqueous volcano flanks.

There are around 840,000 habitants on La Réunion island, and over 245,000 permanent residents on the volcano flanks.

Volcano flank failure deposits do not appear to be a major component of the sedimentary architecture.

Boudon, G., Le Friant, A., Komorowski, J. C., Deplus, C. & Semet, M. Volcano flank instability in the Lesser Antilles arc: Diversity of scale, processes, and temporal recurrence.

With a volume of 5 km3 the collapse of Ritter Island stratovolcano (Papua New Guinea) in 1888 was the largest historical volcano flank failure and it produced a 10 15 m tsunami on the coasts of the Bismarck Sea3.

Here we document tsunami deposits at high elevation (up to 132 m) on the north-western slopes of Tenerife, Canary Islands, as a new evidence of megatsunami generated by volcano flank failure.

Two of them show cascades on the volcano flank (thermal flank springs).