There the floods of lava that flowed from the volcanoeshave formed caps to hills, with precipices on every side, cut through by the streams, that have separated portions from the main current.
What do you think would be the fate of agriculture depending on the "glare of volcanoes in the moon?
And he says "vegetation might have depended on the glare of volcanoes in the moon.
Volcanoes include many of the most conspicuous and lofty mountains of the earth, as Mt.
Perhaps the most interesting principle which we see operative in this region is the outcrop of volcanoes along meridional lines.
In the east we have already followed the row of marginal volcanoes from Tawkoteli to Karakach.
These volcanoes pursue two lines, one line close behind the other, and the outer or more easterly far the longer of the two.
The storms of the Pontic region spend themselves before reaching this haven; but they beat against the volcanoes of the meridional water-parting on the easterly margin of the more northerly sphere.
And there are the mountains of Asia--the volcanoes with their vaulted summits, as well as those long ridges with their serrated outline which represent the operation of less impetuous forces through longer spaces of time.
Volcanoes on such a huge scale as these two Armenian giants could scarcely be expected to rise save on the margins of a great depression, whether subsidence may have been the cause or the effect.
It is in the Shatin Dagh that the bend to the west-south-west is effected, which may be followed through a series of volcanoes into the Anti-Taurus and the Mediterranean range.
It stands a little back and behind the fabric of Ararat, and volcanoes too have built themselves up upon this wall.
This latter place is easily reached in one day from Soerabaia; and close by is Mount Bromo, one of the most active volcanoes in Java, and one which is always covered with smoke.
They are supplied by the numerous volcanoes in the island, and carried down the sides of the mountains to the plains below in lava streams.
For similar reasons it seems not impossible that the theory mentioned in a former chapter -- that some of the meteorites that have fallen upon the earth originated from the lunar volcanoes -- is well founded.
The enormous size of the lunarvolcanoes is not so difficult to account for when we remember how slight is the force of lunar gravity as compared with that of the earth.
We gain nothing absolutely from the knowledge of the so-called "ancients" as toVolcanoes in Europe at least, where alone historic records likely to refer to them exist.
It is not necessary to dilate, even did space allow, upon the many points which bind together Earthquakes and Volcanoes as belonging to the play of like forces.
We have seen that, on the whole, both Earthquakes and Volcanoes follow along the great lines of elevation of our surface.
The Volcanoesof Europe are few and widely scattered.
Dana, Characteristics ofVolcanoes with Contribution of Facts and Principles from the Hawaiian Islands (New York, 1890); W.
Cinder cones and tufa cones abound, but one of the most distinguishing features of the Hawaiian volcanoes is the great number of craters of the engulfment type, i.
XII-91] The Tlascaltecs supposed that the sparks which sped away from the craters of volcanoes were the souls of tyrants sent forth by the gods to torment the people.
He believes that in the seething and thundering of volcanoes a conception of divinity and of supernatural powers first sprang up in the mind of the ancestors of the Mexicans.
But th' timprachoor is frequently modified be an eruption iv th' neighborin' volcanoes an' th' inthraduction iv American stoves.
We have demonsthrated beyond fear iv conthrydiction that th' gulf sthream is jus' where it was an' that volcanoes ain't what they are cracked up to be.
According to Dana another form of lava bombs is sometimes found on the slopes of the active volcanoes of Hawaii, where masses of lava acquire a ball-like shape while rolling down an inclination.
Other regions of geological volcanoes are to be found in parts of Spain near the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains, in parts of Italy and Germany, as well as in regions in the Caucasus Mountains.
Another part of the world where mud volcanoes are especially numerous is on the western shores of the Caspian Sea at a place called Baku.
Now let us see how volcanoes can be explained on the assumption that the interior of the earth is hot enough to melt, but remains solid only because there is no room for the heated mass to expand in.
There is, however, one thing that you have probably especially noticed and that is that volcanoes are seldom found at very great distances from the ocean, except on some of its arms or seas, such as the Mediterranean Sea.
There are other volcanoes in this district, but the above are all we have space for describing.
These volcanoes range in size from small hillocks to the largest mountains on the island.
During our visit, it was not known that any of the volcanoes were in action; but many of them were smoking, particularly that in the district of Albay, called Isaroc.
Lassen Peak is one of the greatvolcanoes of the Pacific Coast.
Lassen is the southernmost fire mountain of that numerous group of volcanoes that have so greatly changed the surface of the Northwest.
It is the most continuously active of the three volcanoes in this Park.
Of the three volcanoes in the Park, Mauna Loa is the most productive of new rock, which it pours out on the surface of the land.
The celebrated and unequaled Hawaiian volcanoes are a national scenic asset, unique of their kind and famous in the world of science.
Volcanoes in and near the Park threw forth quantities of ashes, lava, and cinders, which built up a plateau region three or four thousand feet thick.
In those countries, also, where earthquakes and volcanoes are in full activity, a much shorter period may produce a sensible variation.
The doctrine, therefore, that volcanoes are safety-valves, and that the subterranean convulsions are probably most violent when first the volcanic energy shifts itself to a new quarter, is not modern.
A considerable part, however, of the hill was formed in less than twenty-four hours, and in the same manner as on a smaller scale the mud cones of the air volcanoes are produced, with a cavity in the middle.
Farther north nearly the whole of the depression is filled with lavas, tuffs and agglomerates, derived from the Tertiary and recentvolcanoes which form the most striking feature of the Andes of Ecuador.
These volcanoes are most numerous in the northern half of the country, and they stand indifferently upon the folded Mesozoic beds of the Western Cordillera (e.
Sangay, or Sangai, the next and last large volcano to the south, is in a state of frequent eruption, however, and is known as one of the most restless volcanoes of the world.
I never say dead volcanoesafter the history and performances of Vesuvius and Pelee.
Because these volcanoes rose several thousand feet above the top of the Picture Gorge Basalt, ash and erosional debris from them washed out over the basalt; these materials constitute the Mascall Formation.
While the Picture Gorge Basalt was flooding most of the John Day basin, severalvolcanoes in the vicinity of Strawberry Mountain erupted andesitic to rhyolitic lava and ash, and built up cones similar to Mt.
Thousands of feet of volcanic ash from active volcanoes accumulated in the sea, and between eruptions great thicknesses of mudstone and shale were deposited.
Faulting and erosion have completely destroyed the cones of the volcanoes from which the volcanic rocks were erupted in Miocene and Pliocene time.
It pushes its snow-covered volcanoes upward, to scatter ashes far to the east.
It crosses a famous valley, among its orchards and hayfields, but always in view of the dark blue mountains and of the snow-covered volcanoes that rise before and behind, their glaciers shining like polished steel in the sunlight.
But volcanoes sometimes contradict prophecy, and no further intimations of trouble having since been offered, this display may be deemed the last gasp of a dying monster rather than an awakening toward new life.
When my book on Volcanoes and Coral Reefs will be published I hardly know; I fear it will be at least four or five months; though, mind, the greater part is written.
The data, on which the volcanoes historically known to have been in action, have been marked with vermillion, were given in a note to the last chapter.
Berghaus marks four active volcanoes actually within the Friendly group; but I do not know on what authority: I may mention that Maurelle describes Latte as having a burnt-up appearance: I have marked only Toofoa and Amargura.
There are some other coasts on the map, where volcanoes in a state of action concur with proofs of recent elevation, besides those coloured red from being fringed by coral-reefs.
Von Buch, however, states (page 462) on the authority of La Peyrouse, that there are no less than seven volcanoes between these islands and Japan.
Before making some concluding remarks on the relations of the spaces coloured blue and red, it will be convenient to consider the position on our map of the volcanoes historically known to have been in action.
Absence of active volcanoes in the areas of subsidence.
It goes without saying that in a country where there are so many active, dormant and extinct volcanoes hot and mineral springs are of common occurrence.
It passes near Banájao, one of the most beautiful extinct volcanoes of the Philippines; is bordered for long distances by cocoanut groves, and extends for many miles through a most beautiful forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volcanoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
