submarine eruption in a sentence
Examples
- This close monitoring gives the 1998 eruption the distinction of being the only submarine eruption ever observed in situ.
- All the islands have been built up in submarine eruptions and consist of alternating layers of palagonite tuff and lava.
- A tsunami occurred in 1897, believed to have been caused by a local submarine eruption on 21 September 1897.
- Palea Kameni and Nea Kameni were formed as a result of multiple, initially submarine eruptions at the center of the caldera.
- Submarine eruptions at a rocky shoal-about southeast of Hunga Haapai and south of Hunga Tonga-were reported in 1912 and 1937.
- Beginning as a submarine eruption, it eventually built to a Surtseyan eruption that resulted in the formation of a circular island long, altitude island.
- The second, or superior eruption, covers a great part of the eastern part of the island, resulting from sub-aerial and submarine eruptions.
- On September 28, 2013 a new submarine eruption began southwest of the 2011-2012 eruption site, with water discoloration and a significant steam plume reported.
- An aerial inspection on 14 September noted that a new island had formed above the submarine eruption site, the island formed a cinder cone around high and across.
- At shallow depths it is common for submarine eruptions to be explosive due to the reaction between volatiles in the magma and water which generates a significant quantity of steam.