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Friday Photo (59): Active Geology – Icelandic Geyser

Rosalie Tostevin November 30, 2012 Active geology, Iceland, Photos 1 Comment

These two images show an Icelandic geyser when calm (top) and then when ‘erupting’ (Bottom). Historical reports associate increased activity in the geysers with earthquakes.

By Rosalie Tostevin

Rosalie was the Himalayas Programme Officer for Geology for Global Development and writer for the GfGD blog. She is a geochemist and a postdoc at the University of Oxford.

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Aaron December 1, 2012, 2:02 am

I visited Iceland earlier this year and took a tour of the volcanic areas around Reykjavik. It was fascinating (and beautiful).

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