Sentence examples for ashfall from inspiring English sources

After lying inactive for more than 70 years, Popocatépetl erupted in December 1994, causing an ashfall over Puebla.

Stabiae's inhabitants were spared from the rushing nuées ardentes (a type of pyroclastic flow) that overwhelmed the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum; nevertheless, the town was buried in heavy ashfall.

He ranks the Ocucaje (pronounced oh-coo-CAH-heh) and adjacent sections of desert with top fossil areas like Liaoning Province in China, where ashfall famously preserved plumed dinosaurs.

There was some talk of ashfall, but there had been ashfall in Western Washington from the minor eruptions.

Stratification also may result from successive flows of liquid lava or alternations between flows and ashfalls.

Conditions for preservation were unusually favourable at these sites because ashfalls from nearby volcanoes and fluctuations of the lake led to rapid burial of the hominin and associated remains.