1. As the plate descends, parts of it heat and rise back to the surface as hot lava. 2. Like all the seafloor, they are created at midocean ridges, where two plates diverge and hot lava wells up from the underlying mantle. 3. New black-sand beaches are being created as the hot lava meets the cold water and is pounded into granules. 4. The plates form in the abyss as hot lava erupts from the sea floor, buttressing new crust on either side of the fiery gash. 5. The pumping heartbeat is the rhythmic eruption of hot lava along a volcanic rift that girds the globe like seams on a baseball. 6. An eruption from Mount Nyiragongo has sent rivers of hot lava flowing through the town and into nearby Lake Kivu. 7. Etna has been spewing smoke and sending up showers of hot lava rock off and on for months. 8. Fumes from hot lava apparently set the fuel on fire. 9. He said the trek was made more difficult Sunday because the area was still littered with hot lava and rocks from an eruption of the volcano last Wednesday. 10. He warned them that heavy rains may bring hot lava, sand and ash sweeping down from the still-belching volcano. |