Snow folded by advancing lava

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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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