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Resuspended ash cloud from 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption

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MODIS Aqua 1-km resolution true color satellite image shows a resuspended ash cloud generated from high winds scouring the dry, unvegetated deposits in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The cloud stretches across Shelikof Strait to western Kodiak Island.

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