Snow folded by advancing lava
The growing lava flow field during the Bardarbunga eruption at Holuhraun in 2014/15 in Iceland interacted with the first snow: Instead of melting it or flowing on top of it, the growing lava flow field just pushed a layer of centimetre-thick snow and millimetre-thick ash out of the way and folded it.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Eva P. S. Eibl (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
690.5 KB
Aspect
2703:1823
Width
2703 px
Height
1823 px
Brand
Nikon
Model
COOLPIX P7100
Exposure
6 mm f/2.8 1/100 s ISO 100
Software
Photoshop
Coordinates
64.8796, -16.7514
Tint
Black
Submitted
1 March 2017
Taken
27 September 2014
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