What's the difference between canyon and volcanoes?

Canyon


Definition:

  • (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (2) Mutants resistant to R 61837 (up to 85 times the MIC) were shown to bear some cross-resistance (up to 23 times the MIC) to the new compound, indicating that pirodavir also binds into the hydrophobic pocket beneath the canyon floor of rhinoviruses.
  • (3) Mariner 9 showed it possesses the solar system's largest mountain and its biggest canyon, while ancient riverbeds and streams were discovered at several sites, findings that have been confirmed and explored in far greater detail by subsequent probes and which continue to maintain hopes that we will one day find signs of life on another world.
  • (4) This 12-mile stretch of rapids enters a roadless zone of beautiful mountains and canyons.
  • (5) In this communication we describe the initial analysis of the complexity and polymorphism of sequences related to T-cell receptor (Tcr) alpha and beta chain genes in two subspecies, Sciurus aberti aberti (Abert) and Sciurus aberti kaibabensis (Kaibab) which have identical habitats and are separated by the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA.
  • (6) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
  • (7) Sequoia also boasts 4,421m Mount Whitney, the high point of the John Muir Trail, which runs through Sequoia and Kings Canyon on its way up to Yosemite.
  • (8) "The company that was responsible for the Torrey Canyon should be paying for it under the polluter-pays principle but the international laws weren't in place back then," says Roussel.
  • (9) The 90m-high Hells Canyon dam, built in 1967, is the largest privately owned hydroelectric power complex in the country.
  • (10) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
  • (11) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
  • (12) Seroprevalence to Jamestown Canyon and snowshoe hare viruses was associated with increasing age.
  • (13) The virions of CE group viruses (CE, Jamestown Canyon, Keystone, LAC, Melao, SSH, TVT, TAH viruses and South River, an unregistered virus) have three major viral polypeptides, designated G1, G2, and N.
  • (14) But when the snow melts, Colorado’s perilous mountain passes, plains and canyons make the perfect setting for a road trip that takes in the best of the American landscape.
  • (15) Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative.
  • (16) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
  • (17) Fly to Salt Lake City airport Stay at One of the park campsites, from $10, or at Best Western Canyonlands Inn , from $160 Bob Gibbons and Siân Pritchard-Jones, authors, The Grand Canyon Guide (Cicerone, £14) Ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde NP , Colorado Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table), offers a spectacular look into the Pueblo people, who lived here from AD600 to AD1300.
  • (18) To visit the Grand Canyon, in north-west Arizona, choose between the more developed South Rim, which is open year-round, and has drive-up overlooks, museums and mule rides, or the more secluded North Rim, which is higher in elevation and closed to vehicles from mid-October until mid-May because of the snow (skiers and snowshoers are welcome).
  • (19) Those are garage doors from San Diego.” Garage doors are a popular material in this canyon.
  • (20) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.

Volcanoes


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Volcano

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That suggests they are being replenished by sulphur dioxide, most probably from volcanoes.
  • (2) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
  • (3) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
  • (4) On the edge of Goma, in the shadow of the active Nyiragongo volcano, Mugunga hosts some of the 30,000 people who fled their homes following the upsurge of fighting that began in April.
  • (5) "Previous eruptions there are not well characterised, because it's such a poorly-known volcano.
  • (6) Over the weekend, forecasters fed the dispersion model with data on the amount of ash being churned out by the volcano.
  • (7) The principal investigator, Matthew Watson , a former UK government scientific adviser on emergencies and now a Bristol University lecturer, says the experiment is inspired by volcanoes and the way they can affect the climate after eruptions.
  • (8) She said: "First they suffered greatly in the civil war and now they are forced to flee their homes by a volcano."
  • (9) Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
  • (10) But he said: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll find him a position.’ So they played him as a centre-half.” Volcano!
  • (11) For our last three days, we do a northern triangle of hot spots – whale watching at Húsavik, swimming at Hofsós infinity pool and the volcanoes of Mývatn .
  • (12) Energyhelpline describes the retail market as being "like a volcano about to blow".
  • (13) That shadow bears a subtle but clear similarity to the silhouette of one of Mexico City’s volcanoes, the Iztaccihuatl – also known as La Mujer Dormida (“The Sleeping Woman”).
  • (14) Perched some 11,000ft up a volcano, the Mauna Loa observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.
  • (15) As the volcano continued to belch smoke above the town, people dusted off the ashes and rebuilt the North Kivu capital.
  • (16) "We have 100 million people living in places that are prone to disasters, including volcanoes, earthquakes and floods," said Dody Ruswandi at the government's national disaster management agency (BNPB).
  • (17) While the experiment may not harm the climate, environmental groups say that the global environmental risks of solar geoengineering have been amply identified through modelling and the study of the impacts of sulphuric dust emitted by volcanoes.
  • (18) This is the state reaping rewards for years of policy … [It may be] that officials are going further than Beijing expects, but that this is working on top of what is already a volcano."
  • (19) Throw Martin Demichelis into an active volcano?” 2.35pm GMT 33 mins A corer to City.
  • (20) So-called mud volcanoes are pretty common along this Makran coast, and elsewhere they are often found to have enigmatic teleconnections with large earthquakes.

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