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ash fall

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ash fall [′ash ‚fȯl]
(geology)
A fall of airborne volcanic ash from an eruption cloud; characteristic of Vulcanian eruptions. Also known as ash shower.
Volcanic ash resulting from an ash fall and lying on the ground surface.


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By midafternoon, Vancouver residents were reporting a light ash fall.
Although the largest bits of ash fall to the ground in the vicinity of an erupting volcano, what stays aloft to waft further downwind is by no means benign.
These intercepts are hosted by a rholitic ash fall tuft overlying phyllite.
 
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