Sentence examples for volume of ash from inspiring English sources

The volume of ash was about 5 cubic km (1.2 cubic miles).

"The soil in the area covered by this volume of ash deposits will be practically lost," said Wilfredo Vera, engineer from the University of Chile.

The volume of ash and issues with the clogging of air filters also meant that clean up vehicles struggled to gain access to some areas for clean-up.

The volume of ash deposited, and the estimated height of the eruption plume (43 kilometers above sea level) put the eruption's magnitude at a minimum of 7 on the volcanic explosivity index (which has a scale of 1 to 8)—making it one of the largest known in the Holocene.

Because the eruptions are small, the volume of ash from each eruption is usually too small to estimate, but H. Shinohara (AIST; Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; personal communication, 2005) calculated an ash weight of 4 × 106 kg for one of the largest eruptions, which occurred on 2 December 2004.

Comparison of the ash-fall distribution between the 2014 and 1979 deposits in the proximal area, however, shows that a relatively larger amount of ash accumulated proximally during the 2014 eruption than during the 1979 eruption, even though the total volume of ash was less.

But the growing taste for do-it-yourself memorials has prompted growing concern over the impact it is having on the natural environment Dr Malcolm Petyt, of the Ramblers Association, said there was concern that the sheer volume of ashes in some particularly popular spots could affect the ecosystem.

Maeno et al. (2016) estimated a total volume of ash-fall and pyroclastic density current deposits of 0.7 1.3 × 106 m3.

The single isopach method (V = 12.2TA; T: thickness, A: selected isopach area; Hayakawa 1985) is sometimes used to estimate the volume of ash-fall deposit (and widely used in Japan), because the total discharged volume can be calculated based only on one isopach.

Coal production involves blowing up mountains, tearing apart land, burying streams with spoil, discharging acidic waste water that destroys aquatic life, and disposal of gargantuan volumes of ash after combustion.

Large volumes of ash are a product of explosive volcanism that is typical of periods of accelerated subduction, as at present, and especially in the Ordovician [18, 22, 23].