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Volcanic Sand Iceland
| origin | the volcanic sand is a mixture of glaciofluvial volcanic ash originated from beneath the Myrdalsjokull glacier mixed with asd from the Eyjafjallajokull and Grimsvotn eruptions of 2010 and 2011 |
| main constituent | silicon (17.69 wt%), oxigen (44.20 wt%), carbon (24.14 wt%), iron (5.14 wt%), aluminium (3.99 wt%)
(X-ray spectrometry) |
| particle size | measured size distributions Mie: reff=9.8 μm, v Fraunhofer: reff=7.5 μm, veff=4.6 |
| particle shape | irregular |
| refractive index | 1.6 + i0.01 (647nm) |
| color | black |
| scattering matrix | 647 nm |
| article | Zubko N, Muñoz O, Zubko E, Gritsevich M, Escobar-Cerezo J, Berg MJ, Peltoniemi J. Light scattering from volcanic-sand particles in deposited and aerosol form. Atmospheric Environment, vol. 470, p. 116813, 2019 |
