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Iceland

Ropy black basalt solidifies, with orange-red lava visible, like embers in a fire.
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Crystals Track Magma Movement Beneath Iceland

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 28 February 202328 February 2023

Crystals from Fagradalsfjall’s eruption mark how mantle magma might have been moving years before geophysical indicators alerted scientists to unrest.

Logs, sticks, and branches that washed up on the shores of Iceland are piled on a beach.
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Melting Sea Ice May Mean the End of Driftwood in Iceland

Richard Sima, freelance science writer by Richard J. Sima 25 August 202224 March 2023

Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change.

The Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in Iceland on 20 March 2021.
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Mapping a Volcanic Eruption in the Backyard of Iceland’s Capital

by Stacy Kish 19 July 202219 July 2022

Researchers used satellites and aerial data to create regularly updated maps of the Fagradalsfjall eruption for both the public and disaster response agencies.

Photograph of a volcano erupting.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Dynamics of Volcanic Processes

by Olivier Roche, Yosuke Aoki, Nikolai Bagdassarov, Michael Heap, Sigrun Hreinsdottir, Qinghua Huang, Daniel Pastor-Galan, Michael Poland, Maria Sachpazi, Fang-Zhen Teng, Gregory Waite, Marie Edmonds, Paul Asimow, Minghua Zhang and Graziella Caprarelli 6 July 202220 September 2022

A new cross-journal special collection invites contributions on modern approaches used to investigate dynamics of volcanic processes.

Photomicrograph of tree ring cell density from open to tight showing the repeating pattern of seasonal growth.
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How Hot Was the Summer of 1783 Really? Trees Tell Tales

by Sarah Feakins 20 April 20224 January 2023

Volcanoes, heat waves, and tree rings – getting the seasonal story straight – a new study finds that volcanic fog lowered summer tree ring density despite the heat.

The Krafla geothermal power station in northern Iceland
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Innovative Model Elucidates Geothermal Energy Resource

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 14 March 20225 December 2022

Data from deep wells and a Bayesian modeling framework shed new light on one of Iceland’s valuable geothermal reservoirs.

A snowcat plows its way through snow with a rocky ridge in the background.
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Sensing Iceland’s Most Active Volcano with a “Buried Hair”

by Sara Klaasen, Sölvi Thrastarson, Andreas Fichtner, Yeşim Çubuk-Sabuncu and Kristín Jónsdóttir 4 January 20221 June 2022

Distributed acoustic sensing offered researchers a means to measure ground deformation from atop ice-clad Grímsvötn volcano with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions.

Foto de Kristin Jónsdóttir, la sismóloga de la Oficina Meteorológica de Islandia al frente, con Fagradalsfjall haciendo erupción detrás. A medida que lava naranja sale de pequeño cráter, humo anarajandizo sube al aire. El fondo de basalto negro solidificado brilla en rojo.
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Persiguiendo magma por la península de Reykjanes en Islandia

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 30 June 202110 November 2021

La Oficina Meteorológica de Islandia ha estado rastreando la agitación cerca de la erupción de Fagradalsfjall desde diciembre de 2019, mientras que investigadores en otros lugares exploran nuevos métodos para ver los enjambres sísmicos de Islandia.

Photo of Icelandic Meteorological Office seismologist Kristín Jónsdóttir in the foreground, with erupting Fagradalsfjall in the background. As bright orange lava spills out of the small crater and flows behind her, eerie orange-tinged smoke billows into the air. The ground of solidified black basalt glows red.
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Chasing Magma Around Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 25 May 20214 August 2022

The Icelandic Meteorological Office has been tracking unrest near erupting Fagradalsfjall since December 2019, while researchers elsewhere explore new methods to see Iceland’s seismic swarms.

Photograph of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010
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A Geologist’s Guide to Exploring and Understanding Iceland

by T. J. Jovanelly 5 November 202010 November 2021

A new book explores the geophysical processes that have shaped Iceland over 30 million years and continue to influence the landscape.

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