Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-2xdlg Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-16T16:33:59.519Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Volcanic Ash from the Hekla Eruption of 1947

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Frederick A. Henson
Frederick A. Henson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Nottingham.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Description of ash which fell on a trawler, fishing off Iceland, during the first hours of the 1947 Hekla eruption. Discussion of the probable track of the ash from the volcano to the ship and the factors affecting sorting involving upper wind velocities, terminal velocities of the various sizes of pumice and mineral fragments which constitute the ash, and weather conditions.

Type
Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 89 , Issue 4 , August 1952 , pp. 293 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)