Sentences with phrase «with volcanic dust»

Not exact matches

The drill's filters, which clean water being pumped out of the borehole, became clogged with black dust — «volcanic ashes from some past large volcanic eruption,» speculated Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied this region for two decades and co-leads the drilling project.

This allows the researchers to use desert dust as an analogue for volcanic ash to test their system when they don't have a volcanic ash cloud to work with.

Did you know that the atmosphere is constantly filled with nanoparticles from volcanic ash, sea spray, cosmic dust, and smoke.

A god - sim, From Dust puts the fluxing fate of a archipelago in your omniscient hands, with the island's lone tribe of nomadic villagers at the peril of landslides, volcanic eruptions and flood.

While the suspended dust can temporarily block sunlight, the dominant effect in volcanic forcing is the sulphur, which combines with water to form sulphuric acid droplets.

Skies polluted by volcanic ash scatter sunlight more, making sunsets show more red; similar results are seen with dust or man - made aerosols.

Ash from volcanic eruptions becomes trapped in ice sheets along with snow and dust.

Two problems with that: warming is not occurring, and they can't determine the effect of the volcanic dust called aerosols.

H. H. Lamb was the first (1970) to attempt to determine the amount of volcanic dust in the atmosphere with his creation of the Dust Veil Index (Ddust in the atmosphere with his creation of the Dust Veil Index (DDust Veil Index (DVI).

That may well include increased or decreased natural dust (for natural or unnatural reasons), and definately volcanic aerosols (note that this factor was increasingly negative in the 40's to 60's) along with man - made aerosols.

1970 Hubert H. Lamb, «Volcanic Dust in the Atmosphere; with a Chronology and Assessment of Its Meteorological Significance.»