Draining lava flow field
Hundreds of waterfalls in Hraunfossar seem to be fed from a lava flow field in northwest Iceland. Rainwater and a branch of a glacial river seep away in the porous lava of 1000 year old Hallmundarhraun. A few meters deeper an impermeable basaltic layer conducts this sediment-poor water and leads to the formation of hundreds of small waterfalls further downstream where sediment-loaded Hvita River, that has carved its bed into the lava.
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- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (906)
- Hydrological Sciences (652)
- Natural Hazards (508)
Location
- Europe (3716)
- Northern Europe (869)
- Iceland (287)
- Exact location (-20.9770 W, 64.7009 N)
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Nikon COOLPIX P7100
Software: Photoshop
Taken on 31
August
2014
Submitted on 10 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Eva P. S. Eibl (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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