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Volcanic ash consists of
fragments of rock,
mineral crystals, and
volcanic gl****,
produced during volcanic eruptions and
measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches)...
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Plumes of
volcanic ash near
active volcanoes are a
flight safety hazard,
especially for
night flights.
Volcanic ash is hard and abrasive, and can quickly...
- In
response to
concerns that
volcanic ash ejected during the 2010
eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in
Iceland would damage aircraft engines, the controlled...
- colliding,
fragmenting particles of
volcanic ash (and
sometimes ice),
which generate static electricity within the
volcanic plume,
leading to the name dirty...
- A
volcanic eruption occurs when
material is
expelled from a
volcanic vent or fissure.
Several types of
volcanic eruptions have been
distinguished by volcanologists...
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crust of a planetary-m**** object, such as Earth, that
allows hot lava,
volcanic ash, and
gases to
escape from a
magma chamber below the surface. On Earth...
- is a
geochronological technique that uses
discrete layers of tephra—
volcanic ash from a
single eruption—to
create a
chronological framework in
which paleoenvironmental...
- is a
cloud of super-heated
ash and
tephra suspended in
gases emitted during an
explosive volcanic eruption. The
volcanic materials form a
vertical column...
- inactivity, when snow on the
glacier did not melt. From 14 to 20 April,
ash from the
volcanic eruption covered large areas of
Northern Europe.
About 20 countries...
- a type of rock made of
volcanic ash ejected from a vent
during a
volcanic eruption.
Following ejection and deposition, the
ash is
lithified into a solid...
