E16 mindmap
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- Created on: 03-05-17 11:22
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- E16 Eruption
- Economic Impacts
- 7 days of grounded flights cost airline industry £1.1 Billion
- Industries which need air freight to deliver parts/goods suffered.
- Iceland saw a large increase in tourist numbers post eruption wanting to see the island's volcanoes
- Environmental Impacts
- Flash floods damaged homes and crops in short term
- Respiratory problems for local people and wildlife
- Ash ejected nearly 150,000,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmoshpere
- But net gain from grounded flights
- Floods deposited ash which fertilised soil-bumoper crop yields the following season
- Social Impacts
- Flights were grounded, people missed Easter Holiday flights100,000 flights cancelled
- 700 people evacuated from surrounding area due to flood risk
- Causes
- Lava erupted through a fissure
- Heating of glacial ice mixed with lava
- Phreatic eruption
- Huge ash cloud ejected 11,000 metres into the atmoshphere and spread over Europe
- Read 4 on the VEI
- Location/background
- Iceland, mid-atlantic ridge, constructive plate boundary
- 15th April 2010 eruption
- Glacial volcano with 2.5km wide caldera
- Economic Impacts
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