Sentences with phrase «eruption under the glacier»

REYKJAVIK (Reuters)- Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red on Sunday after further analysis of an apparent eruption under a glacier found there had been no eruption after all.

Hensch said the biggest risk in Iceland itself was from flood waves from any eruption under the glacier.

On Sunday, Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, after concluding that seismic activity had not led to a volcanic eruption under the glacier.

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Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example.

Bárðarbunga is located beneath the giant Vatnajökull glacier in the center of the island; this particular eruption is occurring under a northern offshoot, the Dyngjujökull glacier.

Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano, buried under the giant Vatnajökull glacier, has been holding scientists in suspense over the last 2 weeks, producing frequent seismic rumbles but no signs yet of an actual eruption.

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example, researchers said.

in a SciAm Item for the fact that a series of under - the - icesheet Volcanoes were causing the emmisions of large quantities of water from under the edge of the glaciers, where they meet the sea, and the fact that these eruptions were causing rapid advances in the sheets march toward the sea.