Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)Aerial photos taken by Marco Fulle on April 19th, 2010 |
Approaching the eruption site over the icecap. | Ash-covered icecap, crater and collpased meltwater channel (lower right). | Magmatic activity becomes visible between steam and ash clouds. | Powerful Strombolian eruptions from a vent in the crater floor. |
Massive lava clots are expelled by the explosions. | A curtain of incadescent scoria in front of steam cloud. | Ejected lava clots and billowing ash cloud. | Dante's inferno: a close-up view into Eyjafjallajökull's crater. |
Meltwater tunnel and channel on the left, helicopter on the right. | The helicopter gives the scale of one of the meltwater channels. | Collapse structures along the meltwater channel. | Looking into the meltwater channel through which the lahar flowed. |
Looking down Gigjökull (the tongue is at the top). | Strombolian eruptions and drifting ash plume from Eyjafjallajökull. | Eyjafjallajökull stratovolcano complex; note sandur plain in foreground. | Tele-photo view of the Strombolian eruptions at the summit of Eyjafjallajökull. |
Photos Marco Fulle, 19 April 2010 |