Woods thick with magnificent ash, wind-pummelled into harmonious, sweeping symmetry, line the banks, the occasional Monterey pine, poking above the canopy.
The 20-mile-long fire front sent clouds of dark smoke, thick with hot ash and blackened tree leaves, over much of the city, situated 200 miles southwest of Sydney.
The Reventador volcano erupted today, covering this nearby capital city with thick ash that sparked health warnings and forced the airport to close indefinitely, authorities said.
Parts of buildings, crushed vehicles and the shoes, purses, umbrellas and baby carriages of those who fled lay covered with thick, gray ash, through which weeping people wandered in search of safety, each with a story of pure horror.
One possible explanation for this reduced magnetization is that the summit area is covered with thick volcanic ash, which mainly cools in the air and acquires randomly directed magnetization, and thus causes reduced magnetization.
The entire financial district was coated with ash so thick that it permeated the subways, forcing trains to turn off their air-conditioning as they passed below.
Painted turtles basked on a log in the sun, near banks thick with buttonwood and green ash.
The pyroclastic flows of the eruption destroyed an area of, with ash deposits as thick as 600 m by the main vent.
Around a million years ago, the Valles Caldera supervolcano in the Jemez mountains exploded, blanketing the region with ash more than 1,000ft thick.
