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Progressing ash plume of Eyjafjallajökull 

Reading Time: 1 minutesIn May 2010 air transportation in Europe came to a halt, when Eyjafjallajökull on Iceland erupted. Now, two years after that eruption scientist have gathered and evaluated all kinds of data how the ash plume moved through Europe. This data taken from satellites, plane and the earth can help evaluate particle dispersion better and limit […]The post Progressing ash plume of Eyjafjallajökull appeared first on The Way of the

So, what happens when a giant tsunami inundates coastal lakes? 

This blog post is by Philipp Kempf, PhD student at the University of Ghent, who writes about his recently published Sedimentary Geology paper on tsunami deposits in coastal lakes in south central Chile. Philipp is now on twitter too, tweeting as @TsunamiPhil.Earlier this month, we, a group of geoscientists from Belgium, England, France, Switzerland and Chile, published a paper showing what happened in two coastal lakes, while a giant tsunami flowed into their basins.The tsunami in question was [...]