LadyPakal

That was funny - one minute they are all hamming it up in front of the camera, then next shot a black plume appears above the white clouds (still hamming), next shot they are all facing away from the camera looking at said black plume. Sadly, then back to being idiots. '5 bellies' has gone for an extreme close up. Now a long distance shot - possibly in the hopes it will make his figure more appealing. He seems to be posing for a friend now...

Good view from here at the moment: http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/ This link was posted on the Eruptions blog: http://www.mbl.is/myndasafn/safn/1660/ Some amazing pictures plus a lot of shots of the cleanup & research stuff going on in the background as well as the effects it is having on the farming community.

There she is in her pretty white dress and someone just blew dirt down it and ripped a big hole in the skirt. Sad really. As for the ash vcloud - well, they have decided it's not a danger haven't they...

It's sad in a way - that glacier has been there so long and - BANG - a few weeks later look at it.

Vopdaphone: http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en Not a live cam but updates every 30 secs or so. Longer when its busy. Has the added bonus of being zoomed in at the outflow hole as well.

If it stays clear we may find out when it gets dark. Hard to know now, but something hot is in there. Fascinating! :lol: Look at that crack... and the plume...

Hmm, the mountain looks like it has split in two (glacier melting I suppose). Compare these two images (overview - not the zoomed in bit): Clearer view now: http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en The old girl HAS been busy... :0

Look at this Vodaphone cam image: http://extras.vodafone.is/trailers/fimmvorduhals/mx10-4-235-80/2010/04/30/20/49.jpg There is a gap in the clouds towards the middle of the zoomed out view and you can just about see the base(ish) of the plume thought it.

Halite is pretty - in its purest form anyway. http://www.irocks.com/render.html?species=Halite I found rocks fascinating from a very early age - growing up on the edge of the Lake District probably helped. Arran has a big granite outcropping in the north, with a metamorphic aureole around it (the heat from the granite altered the sedimentary rocks around it). Garnets are found in Schists and other similar metamorphic rocks. You get a lot of that sort of rock in orogenous zones - plates coming together to make mountains - as the heat from the movement causes the rocks to start melting. Funny stuff - apparently one student referred to 'erogeous zones' in an exam essay when talking about mountain building...

One word: Halite! :blush: Before you think I went to a pervy Uni, anyway.

Not really... :blush: The ones I licked were quite salty tho'. and yes, that is an eruption plume - or rather one is ash & one is steam - you can see the colour differences clearly.

Welcome to Geology! I have been known to lick rocks so it could be worse.

I think she has been a busy girl whilst covered in her white veil...

Mine too. They are already stiffing the businessmen on air fares, as a colleague found out when booking a flight from Aberdeen to Stavanger for a trip in 2 weeks time.

I can see lighter plumes coming in front of it on occasion - I think those are the steam. More resolution on the vodaphone images: http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en - just slower updates!

Peering through the clouds, I think I see an ash plume... http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/ Here's the vodapnone view. Definitely a lot of ash blasting up there at the moment - just saw a big burst from the http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/ link.

Either that or the webcam repairs mean that the image has a bit of a tilt on now! Compared them - see attached one from today, the other from the 27th. It's an optical illusion I think, because the water/mud has spread out up to the outlet wall. I don't think it is any steeper. National Geographic filming volcano as it erupted: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Iceland-Volcano-Eruption-Dramatic-New-Footage-In-National-Geographic-Documentary/Article/201004415622469?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15622469_Iceland_Volcano_Eruption%3A_Dramatic_New_Footage_In_National_Geographic_Documentary Steam belching out of the hole again at the moment - vodacam http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en

This might be interesting: http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/SO/televolc/hotvolc/Islande_Avril2010/indexEN.php Latest info & some interesting photos/graphics.

Hi res image here: http://www.pitt.edu/~mramsey/data/iceland/ASTER_19apr10_VNIR.jpg

Nice timelapse of yesterdays events:

Looking here: http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/, I think the reason the tremors have died down a bit is because there is a new vent or collapsed area at the top - see the white blob? Steam seems to be coming out of this circular(ish) area. Could be a bit of the glacier has caved in after being melted from below.

I like the note about someone finding an uncut pink diamond in the ash fall. That would be nice.... Kinda logical really - tremors increase as pressure builds up maybe due to a temporary blockage, pressure releases, activity increases & tremors drop.

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html Definitely an increase in tremors.

I suppose they are formed in a similar way to those seen in the ash cloud coming out of the caldera (the link I posted). Same sort of thing you see when something (jet or whatever) breaks the sound barrier.

I did post a link somewhere in one of these threads. I've only been posting here recently so it shouldn't be too hard to find. This it? http://http.ruv.straumar.is/static.ruv.is/vefur/20042010_myndir_omar.wmv