top

Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on October 3 2008)

Tephra

Tephra (テフラ)

Tephra

All air-fall pyroclastic materials produced by volcanic eruptions

An example on the classificaiton of tephra by particle size (mm in diameter)

Ash: < 2 (or 4)
Lapilli (volcanic cinders): 2 to 64 (or 4 to 32)
Volcanic blocks: > 64 (or > 32)

-Table. Tephra in Hokkaido (in Japanese)

References

TOP

footer