Assessment of the potential respiratory hazard of volcanic ash from future Icelandic eruptions : a study of archived basaltic to rhyolitic ash samples.

• Published in: Environmental Health
• Main Authors: Damby, D.E., Horwell, C.J., Larsen, G., Thordarson, T., Tomatis, M., Fubini, B., Donaldson, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: BioMed Central 2017
• Subjects: Fenton; Eyjafjallajökull; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/22914/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/22914/1/22914.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0302-9

Background: The eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull (2010) and Grímsvötn (2011), Iceland, triggered immediate, international consideration of the respiratory health hazard of inhaling volcanic ash, and prompted the need to estimate the potential hazard posed by future eruptions of Iceland’s volcanoes to I...