«We hope our discovery encourages more researchers to seek out
pyroclastic passage zones,» says Lucy Porritt, a Marie Curie Research Fellow at UBC and University of Bristol.
«At Kima'Kho, we were able to map a
passage zone in
pyroclastic deposits left by the earliest explosive phase of eruption, allowing for more accurate forensic recovery of paleo - lake levels through time and better estimates of paleo - ice thicknesses,» says UBC volcanologist James K Russell, lead author on the paper published this week in Nature Communications.