Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)Aerial photos taken by Marco Fulle on April 19th, 2010 |
![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4303j.jpg) Approaching the eruption site over the icecap. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4313j.jpg) Ash-covered icecap, crater and collpased meltwater channel (lower right). | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4341j.jpg) Magmatic activity becomes visible between steam and ash clouds. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4334j.jpg) Powerful Strombolian eruptions from a vent in the crater floor. |
![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4401j.jpg) Massive lava clots are expelled by the explosions. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4358j.jpg) A curtain of incadescent scoria in front of steam cloud. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4359j.jpg) Ejected lava clots and billowing ash cloud. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4388j.jpg) Dante's inferno: a close-up view into Eyjafjallajökull's crater. |
![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4405j.jpg) Meltwater tunnel and channel on the left, helicopter on the right. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4404j.jpg) The helicopter gives the scale of one of the meltwater channels. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4408j.jpg) Collapse structures along the meltwater channel. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4411j.jpg) Looking into the meltwater channel through which the lahar flowed. |
![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4325j.jpg) Looking down Gigjökull (the tongue is at the top). | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4418j.jpg) Strombolian eruptions and drifting ash plume from Eyjafjallajökull. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4420j.jpg) Eyjafjallajökull stratovolcano complex; note sandur plain in foreground. | ![Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3) Eyafallajökull: subglacial volcanic eruption (continued 3)](icons-eya-20100419/ejafjalla19apr2010-mfulle4422j.jpg) Tele-photo view of the Strombolian eruptions at the summit of Eyjafjallajökull. |
Photos Marco Fulle, 19 April 2010 |