Thank you for making one of the BEST videos of the "action", you kept the camera still and you didn't move around. No one else out there seems to be able to do this. Now the only place for Nar/Bob to go is up.
Remember a few weeks ago a few people thought it was ok to go out onto the same area ...the then solid surface that is now orange/red/yellow hot boiling lava ?
Magma filters up through many fissures/vents. Probably hundreds with most never reaching surface. Lots of magma between mantle and surface. Looks like the a great day to visit the valcano!
I just realized what these little vents remind me of . . . . there are a number of little bitty geysers in Yellowstone. These vents probably dwarf the geysers I'm thinking of and they're spouting lava instead of water, but the sound and visuals are very similar.
Hopefully it is releasing enough pressure to prevent a big blow . I also wouldn't want to be to close as those vents are spewing out some real nasty gases .
I have always been intrigued with volcanoes but while visiting Hawaii years ago I just couldn’t do a flyover by helicopter I kept thinking about the small rotor stop turning or being overcome by sulfur.
Isn't this pretty close to the spot where the original fissures erupted later named Bob by some? I was told it was buried but perhaps not yet dead either! It even looks as if we may have more than 1 new fissure opened under the lava lake if that's what it is. ✨
100% ☑️ Green Iceland Vid travels faster than a speeding bullet - To the volcano! Eyes are greedily drinking in the surroundings after the lava drought.
Hoping lots of cameras on this today with drones. Action everywhere on the western side. The field is rippling from the vent action. We’ve seen nothing like this. Can you tells us hour and minute this began? Thank you for being there to capture this.
Fascinating dynamics exhibited by the most westerly of these new vents. (Presumably the others are similar?) It's acting very much like a mud volcano. Mus be because of the dampening effect of the many, many metres of recently deposited lava it's coming up through, much of which will still be molten under that superficial top crust. This is a really dramatic and spectacular development at this fascinating volcano!
When vent 5 first started it had a large hole and a small one. It looks like the large one is clogged by wall-collapse, and the small one has started up again. The new 'bubblers' are gassing, so the general fissure has probably opened up, giving more vents.
If I recall correctly, was not the small hole roughly on the SE part of the original cone? The hole(s) on the W/NW cone appear to be the probable result of the main outlet being plugged off - here's hoping the lava inside the cone can indeed drain off!
Counting five spurting vents but the whole field is red lava in the cracks. This seems to defy lava tube behavior and streams that stay within their borders. 🤔
wait soooo.... are you saying that you think molten rock material that is thousands of degrees fahrenheit AND thousands of degrees celsius is supposed to stay within its “borders” and not melt through to make new and other lava tubes and paths and lava rivers and lava lakes and such? You’re hilarious.
Difficult to tell distances with telezoom. Is is close enough to the viewing area that it might need to be closed off? If that eruption sees as much flow as the crater did last month that is a lot of ejected material a lot closer to people. And is the crater again active, too, or does it seem like the full flow is starting to divert? There appears to be smoke over the crater, but that's again difficult to tell from afar.
It doesn't seem like as much is being ejected as the main cone had, even if the vents are continuously active. Perhaps the main cone will go dormant or maybe even this will make a gigantic active lava lake like Hawaii sees. I feel the added activity to the north east contributed in some way to this change
@@titaniumhud1536 It's an interesting change for sure. I'm still amazed how much liquid lava there is. And now it's getting reheated. If the new flow picks up that'll stir the pot real good, haha.
I am confused by the lay of the land. The video title syas North side. Isn't this just to the west of the large crater in Geldingadalur? So western part of the eruption zone and leading only south.
@@nolongerlistless thx, but where do the lava flows go? It looks like it is higher ground to the north en north-west. So do they go south or is that blocked too and will the lava rise in place??
Really wonder if its just one big chamber below, trapped between the old rocks and newly cooled lava. Could these new bubbling points be just weak spots on the newly cooled lava surface? While the old fissures are just feeding this sandwich chamber? 🤔
What, the fountains? Or the opening up new vents? Fountains are from the dissolved gases in the molten rock - as the rock rises, the pressure keeps decreasing, and the gases want to expand. When it reaches the surface, it has enough force to blow the material around and up, just like an uncorked bottle of soda. New vents are just where the magma finds a weak spot in the crust and makes it to the surface. The stuff underground is under pressure from that gas, and anywhere it finds a crack it can work it’s way thru…
@@RoxnDox Hey there again Jim Anywhere im cutting to the chase The vent that was shown alot here is lonely which is strange as new vents form in a line when it comes to fissures yet all the new vents are way off angle What do you think? The vents found an unknown weak point in the form of another vault?
@@KaiserStormTracking Howdy. That solo vent does look out of place doesn’t it? My best guess is that there are parallel cracks opening up down there as a result of the diverging plates, and the magma found a pathway from the ‘main fissure’ over to another weak zone…. The weight of fresh basalt on top of Geldingadalir might have been enough to open new stress cracks under there, too. All I can say is that this has been great fun and an addicting event for a retired geologist (by training) who always wanted to be a volcanologist…
@@RoxnDox yeah I was guessing these were all signs of 3 rift zones but it makes more sense for it 2 faults and just a stress crack as a result of the weight
