Tag: Ecology

A schematic diagram illustrating the main terrestrial and oceanic Earth-system responses to volcanic ash deposition. Volcanic ash, pumice, and tephra ejected in violent eruptions of volcanoes ultimately fall back to Earth where they cover the ground as deposits of abrasive, gritty, and corrosive “snow” that never melts. These deposits vary in thickness and may be thin dustings in the case of small eruptions or when they fall down back to Earth’s surface far away from the erupting volcano.

This figure was encouraged by iEarth 2022 seed funds.

• Creator: Morgan Jones
• This version: 15.09.2022
• License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Specific citation: This graphic by Morgan Jones from Jones et al. (2015) presenting data from exoplanet.eu is available via the open-access s-Ink.org repository.
• Related reference: Jones, M.T., 2015. The environmental and climatic impacts of volcanic ash deposition. In: Schmidt, A., Fristad, K.E., Elkins-Tanton, L.T. (Eds.), Volcanism and global environmental change. Cambridge University Press, pp. 260–274.

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