I had a great time once again visiting the Meradalir eruptive fissure. I plan to upload a few shorter segments in the coming days of live footage. I’m currently in the process of removing substantial wind noise.
With the uplift continuing but at a decreased rate, I'm thinking more magma is being injected into the area. So, I'm thinking that the increased height of the fountains could be because more magma is coming out. The flow wouldn't increase by much on the surface since most of it be below the somewhat hardened crust and old lava tunnels.
It was nice to see the face behind the voice! Any thoughts on ever doing a live stream on geographic topics? Keep doing what your doing. Been subscribed since the first eruption in Iceland. Stay safe, stay sane, stay Strong
One thing I enjoyed about watching the Geldingadalir eruption last year was when a drone or aerial view showed the landscape to the west. While the lava flowed around the hills in the foreground, these views showed other hills on the other side of Fagradalsfjall that had clearly been surrounded by deep lava flows in other eruptions long ago. Of course, those hills were the result of other eruptions too, and there must have been a sequence of eruptions forming hills and surrounding older ones. If you can afford to stay in Iceland longer, perhaps you can make some videos showing how the current landscape tells about previous events. I really like that aspect of geology -- how present processes let us explain evidence of what happened in the past.
And to add one more thing, I appreciate the strait foreward educational content which you provide. I was glad to see that you were on-site in Iceland- good to see someone experiencing in person one of their personal passions-
This was so awesome to see. I am Icelandic but living in Oslo, and I also got to visit this new eruption in the early hours on the 6th, before I returned to Oslo that afternoon. I’ve been following you on RUclips for some time, and it’s funny to think about that we were there on the same day, and perhaps watching it at the same time😊For me It was spectacular to witness, and quite different from the eruption in Geldingadalir last year, which I was lucky enough to visit to times while on vacation. Thanks for sharing this beautiful and educating video.
Thanks so much for explaining the lava blobs! I was watching the live feed a few nights ago and saw them, and was convinced another fissure was opening up! Wish I could be there, in person, too!
One thing I will never forget seeing is the huge lava flows from Kilauea traveling at 70mph it was surreal. I would love to see this eruption in person.
Thx a lot for the update and the detailed explaination. It's a pleasure to see you smiling happlily next to the eruption site. Must be a great feeling.
Great to see you again! And thank you for the informative update on our beloved Iceland volcano. Great job. You are a good teacher! All the best going forward.
Really amazing to see your live coverage and analysis. The fact that you can make specific observations and film those specific things to make relevant clips and explain them, rather than just relying on the livestreams and videos from others, just adds to the content. Wonderful work!
I can only imagine how awesome and privileged you must have felt to finally get to view this magnificent volcano in all its natural glory and for you to personally be there to enjoy your passion thoroughly. I have been watching your channel daily for a good couple of years now and all the updates of volcanic activity that you produce. And it must be further interesting for you that geologically you understand everything that is happening because for several others it is just about picture taking. I was at the magnificent Taal Caldera Lake Volcano last weekend and I spent a good deal of time thinking about this volcano and trying to visualise the many eruptions that have occurred here in the past when there were probably almost no people yet today millions of people (and animals) could be affected if Taal were to erupt again with the same magnitude as has happened often in the past. And for most of the people visiting there it was all about picture taking with no realisation that they were standing above a huge active magma chamber with continuous tectonic forces at play.
As usual great information, the best info out there regarding this eruption! It’s nice to actually see you and out enjoying your passion for geology. Thanks for everything you do.
Lovely video as usual, one suggestion though, could you please using a still image, put in a size comparison thing, maybe a car, or a person. It’s hard to put 300’ lava fountains into perspective, when it’s taken from video like yours. It would be an enormous help, and I’m sure that others would find it useful and no doubt other channels would follow your lead again!
Thanks for all your excellent work. Measuring and reporting the air temperature close to the lava flow is an informative detail not found in other Iceland eruption reports.
Not that it’s some kind of contest, but the Iceland Show of 2022 will have a long way to go to beat 2021! Last year, there were so many changes that came every couple of days. New cones popping up, gigantic fountains, crumbling inside walls - I felt like if I skipped a day watching I might miss something. So far this year, the basic look has stayed about the same. But we are still early and last year it went on for about 7 months.
Hello! I have a request that you post an activity update on mt st helens, earthquakes have started at a noticeably shallower depth than its predecessor swarm (february-april swarm) and there has been a slight increase within the hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. I would appreciate a video on the recent swarm. Thanks!
As a finn who goes to a sauna regularly, a 60-100C temperature is actually pleasant on skin, not painful. You could spend an hour or two at 66C without getting any serious side effects (not counting dehydration)
@@pootthatbak2578 the funny part is that i literally spent 2 hours at a 90C° sauna yesterday, the time isn't spent there continuously ofc, you take breaks to cool off every 10-15min or so
@@nikomurtomaki3504 i couldnt do it. I was late for dinner, but on the way home i was thinking about testing my forearm over the boiling rice pot..not in it, but a few inches over.
Yes it sounds extreme but when I was there in the same place it was like hot sun on your skin but did not feel uncomfortably hot. That only happened when standing next to the red hot lava :)
We don't need him to be part of any political group. Look at who funds the science channel. You really want him not giving us information because it doesn't support the science channels agenda. I mean they are still pushing Lamda Cold Dark Matter even though it's failed every test of its existence.
Ah but then he’d have to follow their rules instead doing what he wants (or what we want since he often goes off requests) the power of this channel is that he’s not doing anything for profit!
Perfect diagram and explanation of the small distant spatters. The other day someone recorded 180 degree air. Does it feel like being near a forest fire or the hottest day ever? Like does it surround you like weather or come from the direction of the lava or even just the fissure itself?
Thanks for your support! I hope that you do not mind if I give you a shoutout in a future video with your name! (If you say yes that I will give you a shoutout :D).
Fascinating video my friend. Again, I'm so happy for you, that you are able to witness and experience this. Tell me, have you ever witnessed live an explosive event from a stratovolcano before?
The hot air near the volcano is the same thing as the hot air inside an oven. Air in the oven can get well above 212F / 100C (obviously), yet so long as we pause a few seconds to let the steam out, we can reach into that above-boiling-hot air with a pot-holder and pull out a baked dish. We do so for a limited period of time, and usually while wearing a pot holder, but not always. Wearing layers of clothes or quilted garments helps slow the transfer of heat for a little while is similar. And having a stiff cool breeze to help bring in colder air can help temper the radiant heat effects as well, but it's still not recommended to linger too close for too long. (Heat stroke is no joke.)
Thank you, your explanations are always so clear and easy to understand. I would really like to see some aerial footage showing the extent of both lava fields and how they compare. I know it's early days for this one but it would be interest to see.
When talking about reducing lava rates, don't forget we had 2 days when the site wasn't accessible but it was still erupting. The before and after pictures show how much the lava field has inflated and raised up so the lava effusions rate may be the same but the fountaining may look smaller because its coming up against more resistance from the lava already there
Brilliant glad you got there, you must be truly happy, being a true geology geek you deserve this!! Love your channel, never miss a vid, really like the weekly overview, I have always wondered how much activity there is globally on any given day. I have meneged to get the office I work in to have a daily estimate of temp at a fixed list of 16 locations. Now I have the data courtey of your excellent channel, I will try to get them involved in a weekly activity level by volcano site, will you be doing the weekly overview on Sunday, Not presssuring, there will be massive amounts to see and do in Iceland. I will try to start the office quiz in two weeks. Just brilliant mate, you really look so happy, v, v pleased for you. Loads of other questions, how did you get there, how did you get the time off, how do you company feel about heading somewhere flights may be disrupted and you have to stay and observe for another few weeks? Got my fingers crossed for you on that... amazing mate, made up for you
Gutn Tog was reporting yesterday that he found evidence of fresh lava clear on the east side of Meradalir, probably having come through old lava tubes, so there is lava spreading out beyond the immediate eruption site.
1:00 it's hard to grasp the scale of what I'm seeing, Thanks for explaining the time of flight method, it really puts things in perspective. That thing is terrifyingly big
Three things about this video make me happy ⚀you got to go to Iceland and break dance on a volcano ⚁I got to see what you look like when you look like what I saw and ⚂ volcanoes be explodeded🤘🏻
I was visiting Iceland the night the eruption happened and felt a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Reykjavik. It was a very neat experience but we had to leave the very next day 😔.
I would like you to cover the likeliness or possibility of a subduction junction being underway off the coast of Portugal as per a paper a "couple" of years ago.
You mean the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault (AGFZ) I presume? Based on what I've read that fault is thought to slowly transitioning into a subduction zone under the large transpressional strains. It does involve the underlying crust buckling or folding under itself in a way which will probably turn into a subduction zone if the research is to be believed. It seems quite credible to me given that the strains involved and the powerful Earthquakes and Tsunami's that the system has produced are well established and otherwise difficult to explain. That said given that it transitions from a divergent boundary along the triple junction to a transpressional regime the underlying geomechanics are quite complicated since you effectively have rotational forces involved.
The breakout of lava is what makes places dangerous, this eruption itself is more danger than last because of the huge lava pool. You pointed to the the height of it, its the same depth behind it.
You should be teaching… You do it like one of my professor said the way a lecture should be done… “Like a miniskirt, short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover everything important…”😊😊😊 Brief and concise…
Now that the lava emplacement includes a thick, horizontal layer, how is the effusion rate for lava moving into this horizontal layer, that does not include much gas, so does not take part in the fountain, get quantified?
1:35, they got you with your eyes closed or was it just so hot you couldn't keep them open lol? Always new and interesting information to be gained here.
I have the power to stop the eruption. I just have to decide to go see it for myself, and knowing my luck it'll all be over before my plane touches the ground in Iceland.
I think your calculation of the lava fountain height is quiet inaccurate due to 2 reasons: 1) tephra/lava is very low density; therefore it's falling quiet a bit slower than you're assuming in the calculation. 2) the emerging lava & gas create a upwards draft which further increases the airtime of the tephra/lava. I have a video on my channel that shows small-medium sized pieces of lava/tephra being pulled upwards by the hot air draft (/watch?v=AKVr7trCZHM). The more valid option to calculate the height would be to use the cam on stori hrutur and compare the lava fountains with the hill beside it (meradalahnukar).
On a drone video from yesterday’s eruption, when they panned to the outflow of the volcanic river there was some white/lighter areas around the outside of the black lava plane in the area. Any idea what caused this? Would be be weathering of the lava erupted last year in the previous eruption nearby or perhaps a new thermal area forming possibly like Bumpass Hell in Lassen? Those were my two guesses.
GutnTog had the drone video that I’d mentioned, it was around 3:30 in the video. Asked on there and the thought seemed to be sulphur crystallizing around the edges
@@theandrew1375 the sulfur is the more yellowish colors that will show up later which you can see better at the previous eruption. the white is due to the alkaline in the magma rapidly cooling and reacting to the water in the air.
Its A'a lava which automatically tells you its either a more viscus side of basalt or low viscosity andesite and based on the geological setting being a juxtaposed mid ocean ridge and hotspot rather than a subduction zone the lava can really only be basaltic in origin without significant crystal fractionalization.
Iceland is a unique volcanic combination of divergent plate margin and mantle plume. I surmise that this combination is the reason why Iceland became an island and not another seamount. Would you like to devote a video (or a series) to this fascinating phenomenon?
I had a great time once again visiting the Meradalir eruptive fissure. I plan to upload a few shorter segments in the coming days of live footage. I’m currently in the process of removing substantial wind noise.
It's Iceland, there is always wind noise. LOL
With the uplift continuing but at a decreased rate, I'm thinking more magma is being injected into the area. So, I'm thinking that the increased height of the fountains could be because more magma is coming out. The flow wouldn't increase by much on the surface since most of it be below the somewhat hardened crust and old lava tunnels.
It was nice to see the face behind the voice!
Any thoughts on ever doing a live stream on geographic topics?
Keep doing what your doing. Been subscribed since the first eruption in Iceland.
Stay safe, stay sane, stay Strong
One thing I enjoyed about watching the Geldingadalir eruption last year was when a drone or aerial view showed the landscape to the west. While the lava flowed around the hills in the foreground, these views showed other hills on the other side of Fagradalsfjall that had clearly been surrounded by deep lava flows in other eruptions long ago. Of course, those hills were the result of other eruptions too, and there must have been a sequence of eruptions forming hills and surrounding older ones. If you can afford to stay in Iceland longer, perhaps you can make some videos showing how the current landscape tells about previous events. I really like that aspect of geology -- how present processes let us explain evidence of what happened in the past.
What's the deepest caldera in the world?
And to add one more thing, I appreciate the strait foreward educational content which you provide. I was glad to see that you were on-site in Iceland- good to see someone experiencing in person one of their personal passions-
Cool to actually see you! Such a fantastic channel 👍⭐⭐⭐
That's awesome you made it there in person to not only film it but see it in person, feel the heat in person, and even smell it personally.
I imagine it smelled like sulfur and singed nose hair.
That one person who wants to smell everything 😂
Your explanation’s are always easy to understand and make it more helpful to get a grasp for what’s really happening. Thanks again.
This was so awesome to see. I am Icelandic but living in Oslo, and I also got to visit this new eruption in the early hours on the 6th, before I returned to Oslo that afternoon. I’ve been following you on RUclips for some time, and it’s funny to think about that we were there on the same day, and perhaps watching it at the same time😊For me It was spectacular to witness, and quite different from the eruption in Geldingadalir last year, which I was lucky enough to visit to times while on vacation. Thanks for sharing this beautiful and educating video.
Thanks so much for explaining the lava blobs! I was watching the live feed a few nights ago and saw them, and was convinced another fissure was opening up! Wish I could be there, in person, too!
Your footage is beautiful, the colors are amazing. Thank you for taking us along.
I have watched 90% of your videos and have you set for all notifications- the REAL news. TY
It's great you had the opportunity to visit the eruption in Iceland. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and images.
One thing I will never forget seeing is the huge lava flows from Kilauea traveling at 70mph it was surreal. I would love to see this eruption in person.
The Spatter cone is getting taller now. Also, thanks for covering the topic regarding the lava blobs !
Thx a lot for the update and the detailed explaination. It's a pleasure to see you smiling happlily next to the eruption site. Must be a great feeling.
Great to see you again! And thank you for the informative update on our beloved Iceland volcano. Great job. You are a good teacher! All the best going forward.
Really amazing to see your live coverage and analysis. The fact that you can make specific observations and film those specific things to make relevant clips and explain them, rather than just relying on the livestreams and videos from others, just adds to the content. Wonderful work!
I'm lovin' these videos - the splattter, the heat, the flow - it's all amazing. Thanks for taking the time to produce and post these videos!
Nice to place a face with the voice. I am glad you were able to make this trip and look forward to updates.
I can only imagine how awesome and privileged you must have felt to finally get to view this magnificent volcano in all its natural glory and for you to personally be there to enjoy your passion thoroughly. I have been watching your channel daily for a good couple of years now and all the updates of volcanic activity that you produce. And it must be further interesting for you that geologically you understand everything that is happening because for several others it is just about picture taking. I was at the magnificent Taal Caldera Lake Volcano last weekend and I spent a good deal of time thinking about this volcano and trying to visualise the many eruptions that have occurred here in the past when there were probably almost no people yet today millions of people (and animals) could be affected if Taal were to erupt again with the same magnitude as has happened often in the past. And for most of the people visiting there it was all about picture taking with no realisation that they were standing above a huge active magma chamber with continuous tectonic forces at play.
Amazing!! Love how fast you include a TON of info ☺️
I hope you are having a wonderful visit. Love your channel. I’ve learned so much here. Be safe out there. 😊
A 👋🏻 back to you. It is truly a treat for us to see you onsite and giving us such great data. Take care.
Sweet data
Thank you for your outstanding work!🥇👍
As usual great information, the best info out there regarding this eruption! It’s nice to actually see you and out enjoying your passion for geology. Thanks for everything you do.
Your reporting from this is clearly the most scientific yet so easy to understand, and as such it's my favourite! Keep up the great work! 👍🏻
Very interesting information. Thanks so much for explaining lots of thing. Also thanks for sharing.
THANKS FOR KEEPING ME UPDATED. BEEN ROUGH RIDING MOST OF THIS YEAR. MISS COMMENTING REGULARLY. LOVE YOU ALL.
Thanks for your detailed explanations and great reports
so jelly! so cool you're there and it was great to finally see you. 😁
Good to finally meet you bro !!!👍👍👍
Awesome! So good to finally have a face to put with the voice!
I've been wondering about those smaller blobs. Thanks for the explanation!
Lovely video as usual, one suggestion though, could you please using a still image, put in a size comparison thing, maybe a car, or a person. It’s hard to put 300’ lava fountains into perspective, when it’s taken from video like yours. It would be an enormous help, and I’m sure that others would find it useful and no doubt other channels would follow your lead again!
Thanks for all your excellent work. Measuring and reporting the air temperature close to the lava flow is an informative detail not found in other Iceland eruption reports.
Not that it’s some kind of contest, but the Iceland Show of 2022 will have a long way to go to beat 2021! Last year, there were so many changes that came every couple of days. New cones popping up, gigantic fountains, crumbling inside walls - I felt like if I skipped a day watching I might miss something. So far this year, the basic look has stayed about the same. But we are still early and last year it went on for about 7 months.
great volcano eruption update video
Like pulling a cake out of the oven! I love your channel ❤️
Thank you for the “eyes on the volcano” reports!
Good explanations.
Hello! I have a request that you post an activity update on mt st helens, earthquakes have started at a noticeably shallower depth than its predecessor swarm (february-april swarm) and there has been a slight increase within the hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. I would appreciate a video on the recent swarm. Thanks!
I love how easy your videos are to digest! The visuals really help too :)
As a finn who goes to a sauna regularly, a 60-100C temperature is actually pleasant on skin, not painful. You could spend an hour or two at 66C without getting any serious side effects (not counting dehydration)
100c is boiling of water at standard pressure. Youre not telling the truth
@@pootthatbak2578 the funny part is that i literally spent 2 hours at a 90C° sauna yesterday, the time isn't spent there continuously ofc, you take breaks to cool off every 10-15min or so
@@nikomurtomaki3504 i couldnt do it. I was late for dinner, but on the way home i was thinking about testing my forearm over the boiling rice pot..not in it, but a few inches over.
Yes it sounds extreme but when I was there in the same place it was like hot sun on your skin but did not feel uncomfortably hot. That only happened when standing next to the red hot lava :)
Always love your content you should work for the science channel on TV!!
We don't need him to be part of any political group. Look at who funds the science channel. You really want him not giving us information because it doesn't support the science channels agenda. I mean they are still pushing Lamda Cold Dark Matter even though it's failed every test of its existence.
Ah but then he’d have to follow their rules instead doing what he wants (or what we want since he often goes off requests) the power of this channel is that he’s not doing anything for profit!
Excellent video, cheers!
Thank you for explaining those active outlying small lava spatter locales. I had been wondering about those.
What a treat to be able to get an up close look at your passion. You still thinking of heading over for the current eruption?
Perfect diagram and explanation of the small distant spatters. The other day someone recorded 180 degree air. Does it feel like being near a forest fire or the hottest day ever? Like does it surround you like weather or come from the direction of the lava or even just the fissure itself?
It's cool to see you in your element!
Finally, we got to see who our favorite science RUclipsr is irl
Thanks!
Thanks for your support! I hope that you do not mind if I give you a shoutout in a future video with your name! (If you say yes that I will give you a shoutout :D).
Thanks GH, can you tell how much lava has actually "filled" the valley, my question is how thick is the lava crust?
This is all so much FUN!! I love it!
Seeing a lava plum up close like that must be incredible. Video certainly cannot be the same as in person.
Really enjoying the on site coverage of this volcano and the details described of what we are seeing. Thanks and be safe!
Thanks for the plume height estimate; it really is hard to guess from the videos.
Thanks - maps of lava flow development always good!
Keep up the great work 😁
Fascinating video my friend. Again, I'm so happy for you, that you are able to witness and experience this. Tell me, have you ever witnessed live an explosive event from a stratovolcano before?
The hot air near the volcano is the same thing as the hot air inside an oven. Air in the oven can get well above 212F / 100C (obviously), yet so long as we pause a few seconds to let the steam out, we can reach into that above-boiling-hot air with a pot-holder and pull out a baked dish. We do so for a limited period of time, and usually while wearing a pot holder, but not always. Wearing layers of clothes or quilted garments helps slow the transfer of heat for a little while is similar. And having a stiff cool breeze to help bring in colder air can help temper the radiant heat effects as well, but it's still not recommended to linger too close for too long. (Heat stroke is no joke.)
Thank you, your explanations are always so clear and easy to understand. I would really like to see some aerial footage showing the extent of both lava fields and how they compare. I know it's early days for this one but it would be interest to see.
Was there yesterday, quite impressive and an unforgettable experience
Thanks for explaining super heated air versus water… 👍
When talking about reducing lava rates, don't forget we had 2 days when the site wasn't accessible but it was still erupting. The before and after pictures show how much the lava field has inflated and raised up so the lava effusions rate may be the same but the fountaining may look smaller because its coming up against more resistance from the lava already there
Brilliant glad you got there, you must be truly happy, being a true geology geek you deserve this!! Love your channel, never miss a vid, really like the weekly overview, I have always wondered how much activity there is globally on any given day. I have meneged to get the office I work in to have a daily estimate of temp at a fixed list of 16 locations. Now I have the data courtey of your excellent channel, I will try to get them involved in a weekly activity level by volcano site, will you be doing the weekly overview on Sunday, Not presssuring, there will be massive amounts to see and do in Iceland. I will try to start the office quiz in two weeks. Just brilliant mate, you really look so happy, v, v pleased for you. Loads of other questions, how did you get there, how did you get the time off, how do you company feel about heading somewhere flights may be disrupted and you have to stay and observe for another few weeks? Got my fingers crossed for you on that... amazing mate, made up for you
Gutn Tog was reporting yesterday that he found evidence of fresh lava clear on the east side of Meradalir, probably having come through old lava tubes, so there is lava spreading out beyond the immediate eruption site.
Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing!
1:00 it's hard to grasp the scale of what I'm seeing, Thanks for explaining the time of flight method, it really puts things in perspective. That thing is terrifyingly big
Three things about this video make me happy
⚀you got to go to Iceland and break dance on a volcano
⚁I got to see what you look like when you look like what I saw and
⚂ volcanoes be explodeded🤘🏻
Wow
From Wyoming °~☆.⭐️.☆~°
I would like a map of where the lava is flowing. And area covered by lava so far by new eruption.
I was visiting Iceland the night the eruption happened and felt a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Reykjavik. It was a very neat experience but we had to leave the very next day 😔.
Any thoughts about this potentially causing travel challenges? I'm travelling to Iceland in a few weeks and would love to hear your opinion. Thanks.
You mentioned about the hot air. How does standing there compare to standing right in front of an oven when the door is open?
I would like you to cover the likeliness or possibility of a subduction junction being underway off the coast of Portugal as per a paper a "couple" of years ago.
You mean the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault (AGFZ) I presume? Based on what I've read that fault is thought to slowly transitioning into a subduction zone under the large transpressional strains. It does involve the underlying crust buckling or folding under itself in a way which will probably turn into a subduction zone if the research is to be believed. It seems quite credible to me given that the strains involved and the powerful Earthquakes and Tsunami's that the system has produced are well established and otherwise difficult to explain. That said given that it transitions from a divergent boundary along the triple junction to a transpressional regime the underlying geomechanics are quite complicated since you effectively have rotational forces involved.
Inredible! ❤
The breakout of lava is what makes places dangerous, this eruption itself is more danger than last because of the huge lava pool. You pointed to the the height of it, its the same depth behind it.
You should be teaching… You do it like one of my professor said the way a lecture should be done… “Like a miniskirt, short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover everything important…”😊😊😊 Brief and concise…
That got a big grin out of my husband, a retired engineering professor.
Why is the spatter "cone" developed only on one side? Prevailing wind?
It would be great to have a “mars guy for scale” with the height discussion.
Interesting how similar this appears to the recent Kilauea lower east rift zone eruption.
Now that the lava emplacement includes a thick, horizontal layer, how is the effusion rate for lava moving into this horizontal layer, that does not include much gas, so does not take part in the fountain, get quantified?
1:35, they got you with your eyes closed or was it just so hot you couldn't keep them open lol? Always new and interesting information to be gained here.
I am wondering if it is possible for there to be harmonic volcanic tremors in the New Madrid fault zone area
0:45 Why not use trigonometry to estimate the height?
I have the power to stop the eruption. I just have to decide to go see it for myself, and knowing my luck it'll all be over before my plane touches the ground in Iceland.
0:39 What’s The Footage, & Video,
I think your calculation of the lava fountain height is quiet inaccurate due to 2 reasons: 1) tephra/lava is very low density; therefore it's falling quiet a bit slower than you're assuming in the calculation. 2) the emerging lava & gas create a upwards draft which further increases the airtime of the tephra/lava. I have a video on my channel that shows small-medium sized pieces of lava/tephra being pulled upwards by the hot air draft (/watch?v=AKVr7trCZHM).
The more valid option to calculate the height would be to use the cam on stori hrutur and compare the lava fountains with the hill beside it (meradalahnukar).
Air also has a much lower heat capacity than water. That's why steam burns so much worse than the same temperature of hot air.
Something like squeezing a garden hose, this is amazing
What is the temperature of this lava compared, say, to the temperature of molten steel?
You would never be sure where to build a house!
On a drone video from yesterday’s eruption, when they panned to the outflow of the volcanic river there was some white/lighter areas around the outside of the black lava plane in the area. Any idea what caused this? Would be be weathering of the lava erupted last year in the previous eruption nearby or perhaps a new thermal area forming possibly like Bumpass Hell in Lassen? Those were my two guesses.
GutnTog had the drone video that I’d mentioned, it was around 3:30 in the video. Asked on there and the thought seemed to be sulphur crystallizing around the edges
@@theandrew1375 the sulfur is the more yellowish colors that will show up later which you can see better at the previous eruption. the white is due to the alkaline in the magma rapidly cooling and reacting to the water in the air.
170 degree F air temperatures? Well then, now we're starting to get near what Texas has been experiencing since MAY!
What type of lava is erupting (I.E. Basaltic, andesitic, ryholitc etc) or is it called something else (lava) while erupting?
Its A'a lava which automatically tells you its either a more viscus side of basalt or low viscosity andesite and based on the geological setting being a juxtaposed mid ocean ridge and hotspot rather than a subduction zone the lava can really only be basaltic in origin without significant crystal fractionalization.
@@Dragrath1 Thank you.
legend
Lots of volcanoes
Iceland is a unique volcanic combination of divergent plate margin and mantle plume. I surmise that this combination is the reason why Iceland became an island and not another seamount.
Would you like to devote a video (or a series) to this fascinating phenomenon?
Would this blobbing end up forming a hornito?
Did people forget that sauna’s exsist? They are even hotter.
You look like a nice gentleman.