Crazy, I was watching the live cam this morning and could see excavators and trucks building a dyke. Just little wisps of gas were showing. I go to sleep and wake up for work and this is what pops up on yt.
Our Earth is such a precious jewel. When these fissures open & the molten magma spews up like liquid flame against the darkness of night it is breathtakingly beautiful! The Earth doesn't just destroy with weather in wind, rain, and fire. Earth creates new earth with the boiling blood from the heart of her core.
You'll want to make a note that it just started to produce phreatomagmatic as there is a intensifying black smoke coming out at edge of northern fissure.
The initial fountains were jaw-dropping as the fissures opened and ran along the fault across the landscape. I continue to be in awe at the power of our planet and nature.
@@Tirani2 And to think that there were whole country-sized Flood Basalt Events millions of years ago, that's truly the power of the Planet at its maximum
calling it a volcano doesn't do the feature justice... it's quite literally the earth splitting in 2 . the american plate and the Eurasian plate split through Iceland, and a feature that would normally be at the bottom of the ocean can be observed on land. this is really just a magma fissure and not a "volcano" in the traditional sense.
Do the walls to divert lava present any geologic problem from the lava building up against them? What I'm getting at is whether the lava that builds up against the wall is less stable, more prone to land slide.
Well, there is one more reason that I will not be returning to the Blue Lagoon. But Grindavik, I am really going to miss Grindavik. That was a great little town.
Perhaps I've missed details, but could you explain why exactly it keeps "unzipping" into a fissure where other volcanoes do not? What makes certain volcanoes sort of 'a tube to the surface' where others may be long dramatic fissures? Is this more common then it seems in my mind since the tall symmetric pretty peaks are what becomes iconic?
Is this volcano deemed to be one of the most active volcanoes in the world because it seems to have many eruptions, and these eruptions don't seem to be spaced too far apart? I am curious as to when the nearby power plant, blue lagoon, or city need to be evacuated permanently? Seems like a scary scenario to me. Thank you for the detailed information.
How does the effusive rate you mentioned compare to what you estimate the effusive rate would have been for the Columbia River Basalts? (I realize they were multiple flows, but thought you might have an average number.)
Penetrates the lava very few (density issue) and gives a relativelly dry (i.e. not much fire) explosion. In the nearest future you might try to make yourself a simulation about it with AI.
As the magnetic poles keep wandering expect more volcanoes to erupt worldwide. Especially ancient ones. Like that volcano in Italy or the increased activity in Hawaii... Iceland has many volcanoes 🌋 which are all candidates for sudden eruptions.
This region hasn't seen an eruption in 740 years. But other eruptions in Iceland were much bigger. This is the 9th eruption in this general area that became active in 2021.
I am guessing that even if the lava got through the lava dikes it wouldn't get far because it isn't flowing all that strongly and like you said the flow is slowing already.
A fissure eruption is a kind of volcanic eruption! Volcanoes do not have to be come shaped. The previous eruptions from this same fissure produced at least one large cone.
serious question, should this even be considered a volcano because it doesn't function like a volcano normally world. being situated on a plate boundary that is splitting, it's not created through magmatic intrusion into the crust but rather the crust literally splitting causing a fissure to form that drawn magma up from the mantle. i almost want to just say this is a magmatic fissure rather then a volcano, since the processes are extremely different and the cause of this erruption is extremely different.
@@LimpRichard volcanoes are mountains, or holes in the ground called creates this is a fissure, from the crust splitting in two... how is that a "volcano" its not like any other "volcano" i've ever seen. it's a fundamentally different process and has a fundamentally different result. there's many reason why this isn't a "volcano" in the classic way and why t really should be considered something else. also... the fact of the matter is that this "volcano" would technically stretch from Iceland down to the south Atlantic as it's the same feature.
@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks It is a volcano though. Fissure eruptions are still volcanoes. I don't know what definition you're using. Epic and spectacular however, I don't disagree there at all. It's magnificent.
Poor people of Grindavik will never be able to go back to their home, i suppose most of the people already sold their house or got a deal to move out but still. leaving your family house with no prospect of return or rebuild against something you can't do anything about must feel awfull ... At least they are all safe from harm.
I don't know, somehow I feel therd is something more sinister going on... Am I the only one that noticed what looked like the image of a skull in the magma flows? Makes one wonder...
@@barley12girlThe remaining 94% are not observed because they are too small to notice and therefore also produce too little co2 to matter. Theyre irrelevant. Any eruption sufficiently large to actually inject enough co2 into the atmosphere to make a difference will always be observed by virtue of it being too big not to notice.
