Sentences with phrase «volcanic ash events»

«Any type of event like the volcanic ash event really creates heightened awareness of the need for travel insurance,» says Michael J. Ambrose, president of Travelex Insurance Services.

Not exact matches

Ocean chemist Philip Boyd of the University of Otago in New Zealand says many other researchers have tried to link an infusion of iron from volcanic ash or even dust storms to plankton blooms, but this study is the first to «verify such a massive event.»

Nutrient - rich ash from an enormous flare - up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs» reign kicked off a chain of events that led to the formation of shale gas and oil fields from Texas to Montana.

The most explosive volcanic event of the Quaternary was the eruption of Mt. Toba, Sumatra, 75,000 y ago, which produced voluminous ash deposits found across much of the Indian Ocean, Indian Peninsula, and South China Sea.

Investigation of ash sediments from recent Mt. Pinatubo eruptions and other major volcanic events show a signature of mass independent isotope ratios of sulfur, while sediment from minor eruption does not.

Of all the things that could disrupt travel to an international event, I can't imagine any agent had «volcanic ash» on the list for travel interruptions.

Organic matter from sites above and below ash fall layers also provides date ranges for important volcanic events that would otherwise be difficult to date.

Such an event is suggestive of a volcanic dust veil or ash cloud observed from Constantinople, possibly from a Mediterranean eruption.

I say usually, since there are cases such as the trees flattened by the Tunguska impact, or buried by volcanic ash, that quite obviously recorded direct effects these event.

I've sometimes thought that global cataclysms like the largest volcanic eruptions would disrupt the glacial records by many years, like Oruanui eruption c. 26500bp, as these would induce unrecorded behavior in weather and other things, f.e. the huge ash deposits might decrease the albedo so much a local melting event happens.

Mount Vernon renters insurance provides you with compensation in the event of a number of perils including volcanic ash damage, storm, wind, rain or hail damage and hurricane damage.

As with the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud eruption in April, CSA considers this event to be adverse or inclement weather.

The volcanic ash in Europe was covered by travel insurance one of two ways: a weather related event or as a natural disaster.