With Glaciers Atop Volcanoes, Iceland Zooms In on Signs of Unrest - New York Times

With Glaciers Atop Volcanoes, Iceland Zooms In on Signs of Unrest - New York Times: "With Glaciers Atop Volcanoes, Iceland Zooms In on Signs of Unrest
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An eruption caused a jokulhlaup, or outburst flood.


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By AMANDA LEIGH HAAG
Published: January 17, 2006

SKAFTAFELL, Iceland - The terrain in southern Iceland is as gritty as burned toast, pockmarked by glacial craters and sprinkled with boulders that can be as big as dump trucks. Keep driving, and you come upon fields of bumpy lava blanketed with moss. Hot air rises off the blackened plains like distant fumes."