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0 Pressure (bars) 10 20 30 Fig. 15. Conditions in an geothermal upflow zone near the edge of the lake before (a) and after (b) a typical jökulhlaup. The initial water depth is assumed to be 150 m and the vertical axes show the depth below the lakefloor. Hita og þrýstiástand í uppstreymissvœði jarðhitavökva við jaðar Grímsvatna fyrir (a) og eftir (b) dœmigert Grímsvatnahlaup. Lóðréttu ásarnir sýna dýpi mœltfrá vatnsbotninum. boiling and increased buoyancy of the fluid (Fig. 15). Altematively, vigorous upwelling of the hydrother- mal fluid may be caused by magmatic intrusion into the hydrothermal reservoir. This may have been the case when the sinkhole, observed northeast of Svíahnúkur Eystri on December 8, 1983 (Björnsson and Kristmannsdóttir, 1984), was formed by the col- lapse of an ice cauldron during a period of high seis- mic activity in Grímsvötn after the eruption of 1983 (Bjömsson and Einarsson, 1990). SEISMIC TREMORS Björnsson and Einarsson (1990) suggest that a small subglacial eruption occurred in Grímsvötn on August 21, 1984. Continuous tremors were observed on seis- mographs for about one hour, and based on the rela- tive amplitudes on different seismographs a source could be located in the Vatnajökull area. After this event seismic activity in the Grímsvötn volcano ceased, having been high for some months. Aerial photos from August 22 (Table Al) indicate that sur- face melting was high but no signs of a recent erup- tion were apparent. If a subglacial eruption occurred on August 21 the volume of erupted material was small compared to the 1934 and 1983 eruptions. HIGH SEDIMENT LOAD IN JÖKULHLA UPS An unexpected peak in the sediment concentration occurred near the end of the jökulhlaup in 1972 (Tómasson, 1974). No eruption was observed in Grímsvötn (Björnsson and Hallgrímsson, 1976). Air photos taken on August 10, 1972, 4 months after the jökulhlaup show no signs of a recent eruption or unusually high heat flow. Moreover, Einarsson and Brandsdóttir (1984) consider an eruption at this time very unlikely, as it would have been detected by seis- mometers. A different explanation should therefore be sought for the observed peak in the sediment load. DARK LA YERSIN SNOWPITS A thin brown layer was observed in snowpits at 1.5-2 m depth in Grímsvötn in the summer of 1954 JÖKULL, No. 41, 1991 37
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