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Posted in Philippines General Information on 11/02/2008 11:56 pm by admin 
What practical use of the lahar, the gray stuff from volcanoes?
I remember the Philippines lahar from several volcanoes (Mt. Pinatubo?) Is a big big problem. Among people who died, the other problems contain lahar and what to do with things. Okay i dunno if they are trying containing it (I am only a child who barely paid attention to the news), but I know that for lahar is a problem. I've seen sculptures of made from things from the Mt. St. Helens' eruption. It can be used as concrete? Yes? No? Why? Why not? What are its other uses? Specific It must be good for something, right?
Mr Greenman was partly right. But you know that the lahar spewed by Mt. Pinatubo wrecked chaos in town City and surrounding the volcano? Many towns of the province of Pampanga is buried under millions of cubic meters of lahar when the river Overflowed months after the explosion. Now, after more than 15 years after ruption, Mt. Destructive effect Pinatubo lahar's appetite has subsided. the government of Pres. Fidel Ramos then built a containment dam on both sides of the rivers emanating from the crates to prevent it from overflowing the town along the course of rivers. The river finally dumped in the sea of lahars. May however is a positive aspect even lahar. It is widely used as a nearly inexhaustible source of fine aggregates in the construction industry, such as sculpture materials (for large boulders), as decorative stones, hollow blocks, etc.
