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IPFS News Link • Geology

Iceland's Growing Volcanic Threat

04-10-2013 • arclein

The researchers analyzed pumice and lava from an eruption at Iceland's Torfajokull volcano some 70,000 years ago to search for evidence of the levels of gases from water and carbon dioxide in the eruption. "I was amazed by what I found," Lancaster University doctoral student Jacqui Owen said. "I measured up to 5 percent of water in the inclusions, more than double what was expected for Iceland, and similar in fact to the values for explosive eruptions in the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'.

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Reported By robert klein

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