High resolution 3D confocal microscope imaging of volcanic ash particles

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Wertheim, D, Gillmore, G, Gill, I, Petford, N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Olympus; Eyjafjallajökull; Iceland
• Online Access: http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/14056/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.230

We present initial results from a novel high resolution confocal microscopy study of the 3D surface structure of volcanic ash particles from two recent explosive basaltic eruptions, Eyjafjallajökull (2010) and Grimsvötn (2011), in Iceland. The majority of particles imaged are less than 100 μm in siz...