Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

[coldfingers]

Vodaphone webcam is back live.

[Rustynailer]

Vodaphone webcam is back live.

It looks like there is a steeper slope up to the base of the outlet, as though silt/ash has built up after quite a lot of run off.

Just noticed this handy sat animation, handy if it really kicks off. http://www.sat24.com/Eyjafjallajokull-volcano.aspx

Still expecting the unexpected here :ph34r:

Edited April 30, 2010 by Rustynailer

[coldfingers]

It looks like there is a steeper slope up to the base of the outlet, as though silt/ash has built up after quite a lot of run off.

Just noticed this handy sat animation, handy if it really kicks off. http://www.sat24.com...ll-volcano.aspx

Still expecting the unexpected here :ph34r:

I thought that also about the slope but wasn't sure. Thanks for the new link. I have had to make a folder especially for Eyjafjallajokull on my bookmarks!

I am still hoping for the unexpected too. i am sure this volcano has plenty of fun left in it yet.

But oh if only the cloud would lift!! I want to see what is happening at the top of the glacier, if anything.

Edited April 30, 2010 by coldfingers

[LadyPakal]

It looks like there is a steeper slope up to the base of the outlet, as though silt/ash has built up after quite a lot of run off.

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

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[Rollo]

I just thought it would be nice to thank all the folk who are keeping us up to date with the the volcano-- it should be very interesting if and when Katla erupts.

[LadyPakal]

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.

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[Rustynailer]

Yes LP I think you're right, its quite dark so thats more than just steam.

[LadyPakal]

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!

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[The PIT]

The airlines are cheekily trying too get us too foot the bill for their losses over the ash. http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/999809/Airlines-back-EU-proposal-taxpayers-foot-volcanic-ash-bill/

My answer starts with F and finishes with off.

[LadyPakal]

The airlines are cheekily trying too get us too foot the bill for their losses over the ash. http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/999809/Airlines-back-EU-proposal-taxpayers-foot-volcanic-ash-bill/

My answer starts with F and finishes with off.

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.

[Rustynailer]

Say they do pay compensation, what happens if it so something else along similar lines happens again....

I don't think they should pay. I thought insurance covered act of god, if the insurance can't pay because it can't afford to then the system is floored.

Russ

[coldfingers]

Very coloured silt laden water coming out from the glacier now.

So tantalising those glimpses of blue sky!! If only that cloud cover would lift for a while.

Edited April 30, 2010 by coldfingers

[LadyPakal]

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

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[coldfingers]

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

Well I wish she would be less modest and lift that veil now and again! :blush:

I am suffering eruption withdrawel symptoms and have been reduced to staring at muddy water.

Oh so sad! In so many ways.

[LadyPakal]

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

[BARRY]

[coldfingers]

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

Ah but in Aberdeen you probably have rocks worth licking.

Quick while it's still showing. Surely that is an eruption cloud!

http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/

[LadyPakal]

Ah but in Aberdeen you probably have rocks worth licking.

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.

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[coldfingers]

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.

As for the first sentence I don't think we better go there.

As for the second, Happy now, I have finally seen she is still working hard under her veil.

[LadyPakal]

As for the first sentence I don't think we better go there.

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

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[coldfingers]

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

Sorry but I only know the pretty rocks. Absolutely love geology though since I started teaching my son at home 6 years ago. Have a lovely old book called i think, Holmes principles of Geology (something like that anyway, not looking for it now) and I am slowly working my way through it. Wish now I had learned about it many years earlier but never too late. My family think I do many odd things, including bringing back rocks from Spain. Never tried licking them tho'. :-)

Find the geology of the Isle of Arran fascinating too. Would love to live there and study it a bit more. On Mull I found garnet, sadly only tiny pieces embeded in some other rock.

Edited April 30, 2010 by coldfingers

[LadyPakal]

Sorry but I only know the pretty rocks. Absolutely love geology though since I started teaching my son at home 6 years ago. Have a lovely old book called i think, Holmes principles of Geology (something like that anyway, not looking for it now) and I am slowly working my way through it. Wish now I had learned about it many years earlier but never too late. My family think I do many odd things, including bringing back rocks from Spain. Never tried licking them tho'.

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.

Find the geology of the Isle of Arran fascinating too. Would love to live there and study it a bit more. On Mull I found garnet, sadly only tiny pieces embeded in some other rock.

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...

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[coldfingers]

Halite is pretty - in its purest form anyway.

http://www.irocks.co...?species=Halite

I found rocks fascinating from a very early age - growing up on the edge of the Lake District probably helped.

Ah lovely!

I have a windowsill full of rocks I have found, Amethyst and tourmaline from Cornwall, lots of Agate from Arran, A big chunk of green Talc I found attatched to a piece of coal delivered from the coalman, which was my starting point for collecting when I was around 20. I also found Jasper from Wales I think, getting old and can't remember, Serpentine Cornwall again and a wonderful piece of pink rock which has what I think is possibly a greenish lava holding it together. I think it is lava because of the ropey flowing look to it. I picked that up on a beach on the West Coast of Scotland.

Apart from those I have loads of fossils from the London clay beds at Bracklesham Bay.

A wonderful hobby.

Funny stuff - apparently one student referred to 'erongeous zones' in an exam essay when talking about mountain building...

Now that really was a blooper!

Edited April 30, 2010 by coldfingers

[LadyPakal]

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.

Edited April 30, 2010 by LadyPakal

[coldfingers]

Look at this Vodaphone cam image: http://extras.vodafo...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.

Nice! Black ash cloud also showing through at times now.

Finally we may get to see something tonight.

Edited April 30, 2010 by coldfingers