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Geology Pictures of the Week, May 2-8, 2010: Around Myrdalsjökull
Panoramio ^ | Various

Posted on 05/07/2010 9:26:22 PM PDT by cogitator

Here's the tour around Iceland's Myrdalsjökull ice cap I promised; this ice cap is on top of Katla volcano, which has apparently erupted every time after Eyjafjallajökull erupted (historically). Katla is bigger and reputedly nastier.

(click for full-size unless otherwise indicated)

I Heart columnar basalt:


Skogar stream (this one's full-size)

360-degree panorama of the Solheimajokull glacier:

Hraftinnusker, looking like what I imagine the Martian polar regions look like:

Myrdalsjökull from the air:

from the side:

Colored valleys and blue lake

Axlafoss


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: icecap; landscape; volcano; waterfall
Iceland never ceases to amaze.
1 posted on 05/07/2010 9:26:22 PM PDT by cogitator
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** ping **


2 posted on 05/07/2010 9:27:39 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator

BEAUTIFUL. THX THX.


3 posted on 05/07/2010 9:37:17 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: cogitator

thx


4 posted on 05/07/2010 9:43:27 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: cogitator

Wow.....beautiful.

It was Bobby Fisher and Tom Clancey who initially got me interested in Iceland.


5 posted on 05/07/2010 9:45:58 PM PDT by Loud Mime (The Constitutional Initial Point - - Initialpoints.net)
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To: cogitator

Katla Kan’t Wait!
Welcome Back Katla!


6 posted on 05/07/2010 10:03:14 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (?)
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To: cogitator
Hraftinnusker, looking like what I imagine the Martian polar regions look like:

Well ... a little!


7 posted on 05/07/2010 10:23:43 PM PDT by dr_lew
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