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Volcanic ash consists of tiny shards of glass. The ash can clog and damage the engines. In jet engines, the ash can melt and re-solidify as solid glass within the engine.
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A layer of volcanic ash may serve as a time marker because the ash is?
because it can be deposited rapidly over a large areathink of the many points in history where volcanic eruptions have messed with airplanes due to the amount of ash being expelled in a wide range thus making it dangerous to flyaircraftsduring an eruption
What is volcanic tuft made from?
The correct spelling is volcanic tuff instead of volcanic tuft. Volcanic ash that has been ejected from vents during eruption makes volcanic tuff.
Is volcanic ash radioactive?
No. Volcanic ash is harmful to inhale and can be toxic, but it is not radioactive.
What is volcanic ash good for?
Volcanic ash can create very fertile soil.
Does volcanic ash create basalt?
No. While volcanic ash can have a basaltic composition, it usually does not. Basalt forms from lava. Volcanic ash forms tuff.
How are volcanic eruptions a danger to airplanes?
Volcanic ash can get in to airplane engines and cause them to fail.
Can you use volcanic in a sentence?
Volcanic ash is bad for your health.
What harm can volcanic ash do?
It can form an ash blanket and this can kill if its hot it also suffercates you if the blanket is really bad.
A layer of volcanic ash may serve as a time marker because the ash is?
because it can be deposited rapidly over a large areathink of the many points in history where volcanic eruptions have messed with airplanes due to the amount of ash being expelled in a wide range thus making it dangerous to flyaircraftsduring an eruption
What is volcanic tuft made from?
The correct spelling is volcanic tuff instead of volcanic tuft. Volcanic ash that has been ejected from vents during eruption makes volcanic tuff.
What is volcanic ash good for?
Volcanic ash can create very fertile soil.
What is tephor?
Tephor is a type of volcanic ash. Tephor is a type of volcanic ash.
Is volcanic ash radioactive?
No. Volcanic ash is harmful to inhale and can be toxic, but it is not radioactive.
Does volcanic ash create basalt?
No. While volcanic ash can have a basaltic composition, it usually does not. Basalt forms from lava. Volcanic ash forms tuff.
What volcanic hazard is made up of rocky particles about the size of a grain of sand?
Volcanic ash
What is specific health problem that volcanic ash can cause?
Volcanic ash can cause lung problems from breathing the ash in.
What are the types of ash clouds?
May be only one and that is Volcanic ash. which is exploded from a vent in fragments less than 2mm in size. Ash clouds may provide big problems for aviation. When airplanes fly through an eruption cloud a range of damage may occur depending on the concentration of volcanic ash, gas aerosols in the cloud and the actions taken by the pilot to exit the eruption cloud. Volcanic ash-particles are like small sharp glass-particles that damage anything they come across. Because volcanic ash can fall on many things it's very harmful to the environment around the volcano.
