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    Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism. Volcanologists also refer...
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    rocks, and it reached its present height about 200,000 years ago. Several tephra layers encountered in ice cores at Mount Waesche and Byrd Station have been...
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    Dasychira tephra, the tephra tussock moth, is a tussock moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1809. It is found...
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  • The Yn tephra is a geologically recent tephra deposit that covers portions of the U.S. state of Washington and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia...
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    of Iceland with tephra, and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanoes. Approximately 10% of the tephra created in Iceland...
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  • Tachina tephra is a species of fly in the genus Tachina of the family Tachinidae that is endemic to Austria. "Binomial authority". Arctos. Retrieved 22...
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    24; VEI 6; 20 km3 (4.8 cu mi) of tephra Krakatoa, Indonesia; 1883, August 26–27; VEI 6; 21 km3 (5.0 cu mi) of tephra Mount Tambora, Lesser Sunda Islands...
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    Volcano (section Tephra)
    escape above the surface as lava. The erupted volcanic material (lava and tephra) that is deposited around the vent is known as a volcanic edifice, typically...
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  • Leptozestis tephras is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1897. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded...
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    fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of 100 km/h...
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    Corbella, Hugo; Tiberi, Pedro (1994-05-01). "Sedimentological analysis of the tephra from the 12–15 August 1991 eruption of Hudson volcano". Bulletin of Volcanology...
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    volcano built up by many alternating layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile...
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  • Tephra: The Steampunk RPG (2012) is a steampunk role-playing game designed by Daniel A. Burrow and published by Parlor LLC. (formerly known as Cracked...
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    On 11 December 2023, a jökulhlaup followed in time, a Mw4.5 earthquake. Tephra studies on soil samples from around the Vatnajökull ice-cap, show that the...
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    that occurred between 11.7 Ka and 450+ Ma. Uncertainties as to dates and tephra volumes are not restated, and references are not repeated. The inclusion...
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    numerous times in the late Pleistocene and Holocene, forming widespread tephra deposits both in the proximity of Hudson and in the wider region. Four large...
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    Volcanic cone (redirect from Tephra cone)
    Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms. They are built by ejecta from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone...
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  • In the science of tephrochronology, the Saksunarvatn tephra is volcanic ejecta that formed an ash layer that is useful in dating Northern European sediment...
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  • eruption is the volume of magma ejected as pumice and volcanic ash, known as tephra during an explosive phase of the eruption, or the volume of lava extruded...
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    Strombolian/Vulcanian. Finally, the lava volume was recorded to be 5.4 x 10 and the tephra volume was 6.5 x 105 m3. Cerro Negro's second eruption took place on November...
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    of the eruption fatalities were from hot pyroclastic flows and falling tephra. The pyroclastic flows and surges produced by the third explosion moved...
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    probability of occurring within 30 years and would likely be associated with tephra production of about 1.5 km3 (0.36 cu mi) which can be compared with the...
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    plinian rhyolitic eruptions have occurred during the Holocene producing tephra. These occurred about 1800, 4000 and 8500 years ago. Snæfellsjökull is also...
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    (350,000 cu ft) of tephra ejected; and 8 representing a supervolcanic eruption that can eject 1.0×1012 m3 (240 cubic miles) of tephra and have a cloud column...
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    ± 100 years, As-A tephra, corrected radiocarbon dating, explosive eruption and phreatic explosions 1450 BC ± 50 years, As-B tephra, uncorrected radiocarbon...
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    contrast, produces a mixture of volcanic ash and other fragments called tephra, not lava flows.) The viscosity of most lava is about that of ketchup, roughly...
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  • Scania tephra is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Chile. Noctuinae of Chile v t e...
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    4.5 cubic kilometres (1.1 cu mi) of tephra, which was emplaced mainly south and southeast from Eldgjá. The tephra was formed through alternating magmatic...
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    between 1874 and 1876. At least 16 farms were abandoned in 1876. Ash, or tephra from this eruption was wind-blown to Norway, Sweden, Germany and Poland...
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    eruption that generated the Ōkareka Tephra has been dated to 23,535 ± 300 years before the present. It had a tephra volume of about 12 cubic kilometres...
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