Thick deposits of the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Thick deposits of the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption

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Thick deposits of the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption approximately 10 km west of the vent. A few centimeters of ash fallout was deposited on soil that had been worked by the Maya. The remainder of material was deposited by pyroclastic density currents; fast flows of hot particles and gas that decimated everything within 40 km of the vent.

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Image credit: Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz

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