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Jökull - 01.12.1984, Side 23

Jökull - 01.12.1984, Side 23
Fig. 8. The eruption site seen from the ice shelf on Grímsvötn, view towards the south. The new island is in the foreground, the southern caldera wall in the background. The island is about 80 m long. Photo Jón Sveinsson, June 24, 1983. 8. mynd. Gosstöðvarnar og nýja eyjan séðar afíshellu Grímsvatna. Myndin er tekin til suðurs og má sjá norðurhlíð Vestari Svíahnúks í bakgrunni. Eyjan er um 80 m löng. eruption is likely to have begun between 11:47 h when the last earthquake occurred and 12 h when continuous tremor was first recorded. The first direct observation of the eruption was not until 10:30 h the following day. Volcanic tremor has been recorded during all recent eruptions in Iceland. Where simultaneous observations of the eruption sites are available, there seems to be correspondence between the amplitude of the tremor and the vigor of the eruption or the rate of extrusion. Assuming the same to be valid in Grímsvötn, one may conclude that the eruption was most vigorous during the first 26 hours. The extrusion rate then decreased gradually and was considerably reduced on May 31 and June 1. It is interesting to compare this to the few observations of the eruption. The erupti- on was first seen in the morning of May 29, during the last hours of its most vigorous period. The eruption had then formed a 300 m wide opening in the ice cover of the caldera lake, a thin ash fan, about 5 km long, was visible on the glacier to the south, and a short apron of tephra and ice, apparently water borne, was on the ice cover to the north of the opening (Fig. 7). In the pit an occasional explosion was seen to break the surface of the water, throwing ash a few tens of meters up in the air and producing steam columns a few hundred meters high. Low cloud cover prevented direct observation during the following days, but on May 31 and June 1 a column of steam was seen from overflying aeroplanes, rising several thousand meters through the clouds. The explosivity of the eruption must have been consi- derably higher during these days, in spite of lower extrusion rate. After the eruption had ceas- ed, observations revealed a small island in the lake (Fig. 8). The eruption had built a cone on the lake bottom, that finally reached the lake surface. The higher explosivity during the last days of the eruption is therefore likely to be caused by lower water pressure as the volcanic JÖKULL 34. ÁR 21
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