One of the more persistent reader questions is “What will/can happen now?”. I am pretty convinced that this question is what occupies most people on the inside of IMO, Allmannavarnir and NordVulk as well. The words of several eminent vulcanologists, that this episode is unprecedented, indicate that this may indeed be so. But in order…
I once again reiterate that it is Icelandic Met Office and Almannavarnadeild ríkislögreglustjóra that has the authority to issue warnings for Iceland in regards of eruptions and jökulhlaups. For airborne ash advisories it is in the following order London VAAC and IMO that issues advisories. That being said here follows a brief update. Almannavarnadeild ríkislögreglustjóra…
Iceland is filled with active volcanoes and normally we gawk like Auks at the volcanoes that are driven by the combination of hotspot-volcanism and MAR spreading. Especially we “Ooh” and “Aah” at those tormented spots that are hotspot, continental-spread and triple-junction driven at the same time. There is after all a good reason for that,…
Monaco Bank is a submarine volcano located in the Azores Island Arc. The volcano was constructed on regional tectonic trend connecting the active volcanic island of Sao Miguel (5 volcanoes) to the now extinct Santa Maria Island. Like many Azores volcanoes, the volcano is rift-dominated, built on a NW-SE-trending fissure 20 km south of the…
Earlier today commenter Lucas Wilson asked me about volcanism in Greenland. So, I thought I should write a short piece on what once used to drive the volcanism there. But let us start with what we today call the Icelandic hotspot. In here we have a tendency to talk about large volcanoes now and then,…
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