Sentence examples for heavy ash from inspiring English sources

Caught in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, many died when buildings collapsed under heavy ash and pumice.

The lungs, throat and nasal passages are designed to eject large particles, like the heavy ash that coated Lower Manhattan and fell on many fleeing people, he said.

They were burned alive or killed by flying rocks, or they died later of starvation because the heavy ash smothered crops.

However, jets will have to divert around high-density clouds, causing delays on some routes, because no UK airline has submitted a safety case for flying through heavy ash plumes.

The six week eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010 produced heavy ash fall in a sparsely populated area of southern and south eastern Iceland and disrupted European commercial flights for at least 6 days.

The heavy ash, made from rock fragments, can collapse buildings if a thick enough layer forms.

The risk of acid rain and heavy ashing was persistent throughout the post-evacuation period, when a change in wind direction would re-direct the sulphurous gas/ash plume over to the north, sometimes causing crops to disappear overnight.

Many children of school age were not in the area during the heaviest ash fall.

4 During the eruption, the prevailing wind was from the north-west, causing the heaviest ash fall south and east of the volcano.

He added an unbeaten 39 in Australia's second innings before a five-wicket haul reduced England to 179 all out and one of their heaviest Ashes defeats.

Add to that the fact that India's coal is heavy in ash content, and population pressures on available land means ash disposal is also a problem.