Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Emo band The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die released a song on their 2010 EP Formlessness called "Eyjafjallajokull Dance." An Operator in the mobile game Arknights is named after it. [41] In the season 1 episode 8 of Sense8, Will wants to see "the volcano no one can pronounce the name of", and Riley responds with it.
Tephrochronology is a geochronological technique that uses discrete layers of tephra—volcanic ash from a single eruption—to create a chronological framework in which paleoenvironmental or archaeological records can be placed. Such an established event provides a "tephra horizon".
Eyjafjallajokull glacier, which sits around 75 miles east of Reykjavik, is the second highest peak in Iceland and can be seen on most trips around the southwest of the country. The summit is 1 ...
The Eyjafjallajökull volcano can cause jökulhlaups. The 2010 eruption caused a jökulhlaup with a peak flow of about 2,000 to 3,000 m 3 /s (71,000 to 106,000 cu ft/s). [15] [16] Work in Iceland has categorised jökulhlaups by origin and size. The categories of origin are: [17]: 2 [18]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The term volcanic ash is also often loosely used to refer to all explosive eruption products (correctly referred to as tephra), including particles larger than 2 mm. Volcanic ash is formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when dissolved gases in magma expand and escape violently into the atmosphere. The force of the gases shatters the magma ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
However, during the night of 22 March, they reported some volcanic ash fall reaching the Fljótshlíð area (20 to 25 km or 12 to 16 mi northwest of the eruption's location) [19] and Hvolsvöllur town (40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of the eruption location) [19] leaving vehicles with a fine, grey layer of volcanic ash. At around 07:00 on 22 ...