Meanings of volcanic ashes in English

The whole mountain was enveloped in clouds of volcanic ashes and vapors.

The trees were killed by the last eruption of volcanic ashes

I mounted the volcanic ashes with which it is strewn, and got to the top.

The lavas which are not covered with volcanic ashes remain for ages without any appearance of vegetation.

The great conflict manifested itself in explosions of steam, gigantic streams of red-hot lava, frothy pumice, and volcanic ashes.

During such periods the earthquakes ceased, the lava became cold, and the clouds of volcanic ashes cleared from the air.

Its usually snow-clad summit became covered in a short time with a thick layer of volcanic ashes, which greatly altered its appearance.

The whole island was strown with volcanic ashes, which, where they did not smother the grass outright, gave it a poisonous taint.

Everywhere, too, lay the volcanic ashes that had fallen ere the new planet had been shot from the earth by the volcanic eruption.

For more than a year a thick cloud of smoke and volcanic ashes covered the whole of Iceland, and nearly darkened the sunlight.

Islets, which are now but heaps of scoriae and volcanic ashes, were once perhaps as fertile as the hills of Tacoronte and Sauzal.

The greatest mischief wrought by these successive eruptions was the destruction of the pasturages, which were for the most part covered with volcanic ashes.

My descent from the summit of the crater edge was comparatively rapid, though every footstep went down some fifteen inches through the volcanic ashes.

For their miraculous deliverance from a shower of volcanic ashes the islanders gave all credit, as might have been expected, to their Patron Saint.

So great was the drift of volcanic ashes, that boats could hardly struggle through the water, and multitudes of dead fishes floated on its surface.

At about one mile below our camp the creek runs through a bed of volcanic ashes, which extends for a hundred yards on either side.