A hint of an eruption
This deep blue water accumulated in a depression surrounded by circular crevasses on the ice surface of Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. The formation of this depression is interpreted as indicator for a subglacial eruption in August 2014 that occurred while seismicity migrated laterally at 3 to 8 km depth for two weeks until a subaerial eruption started.
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- Europe (3882)
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- Exact location (-17.1016 W, 64.7339 N)
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June
2016
Submitted on 10 February 2018
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Eva P. S. Eibl (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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