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June 19, 2012
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A couple of fixie riding, sneaker wearing hipsters visited Iceland and made this cool video.

Waterfalls: Gullfoss, Skógafoss, Seljalandsfoss, Goðafoss, Dettifoss, waterfalls Lakahraun lava field, Mývatn lake, Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon, Snæfellsnes peninsula, Geysir geothermal area, Krafla geothermal area, Blue Lagoon, Kjós farm area and Skaftafellsjökull glacier.

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Tags: Iceland video Gullfoss Skógafoss Seljalandsfoss Goðafoss Dettifoss Laki Mývatn Jökulsárlón Snæfellsnes geysir Krafla Blue Lagoon Skaftafell

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March 01, 2012
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David Attenborough on Icelandic volcanoes and basalt columns

In this old video, David Attenborough explains the details of lava flows in Iceland and around the world. I reckon he was visiting the Krafla volcano which erupted more are less constantly from 1975-1984. This is a very active volcanic area close to the famous Mývatn lake. His explanations about the basalt columns which abound in Iceland is very good.

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July 27, 2011
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Crazy Icelandic Waterskiing

Two Icelandic skiiers, Steingrímur and Anton, discover how far they are able to skate their skis into a lake in the Krafla volcano. I believe this lake might be a little bit over freezing, since it is in a very geothermally active area. Still I don’t think it is warm.

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October 14, 2010
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uniformitarianism: Krafla, Iceland Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m; it has erupted 29 times and it is 2km in depth. Krafla includes one of the two best-known Víti craters of Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word “víti” means “hell”. In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it. The Krafla area also includes Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles. The Mývatn fires occurred between 1724–29, when many of the fissure vents opened up. The lava fountains could be seen in the south of the island and a lava flow destroyed three farms near the village of Reykjahlíð, although nobody was harmed. Between 1975 and 1984 there was a volcanic episode within the Krafla volcano. It involved nine volcanic eruptions and fifteen uplift and subsidence events. This interupted some of the Krafla drillfields. During these events a large magma chamber emerged. This has been identified by analysing the seismic activity. Since 1977 the Krafla area has been the source of the geothermal energy used by a 60 MWe power station. A survey undertaken in 2006 indicated very high temperatures at depths of between 3 and 5 kilometres and these favourable conditions have led to the development of the first well from the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), that found magma only 2.1 km deep.

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Krafla, Iceland

Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m; it has erupted 29 times and it is 2km in depth.

Krafla includes one of the two best-known Víti craters of Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word “víti” means “hell”. In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it.

The Krafla area also includes Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.

The Mývatn fires occurred between 1724–29, when many of the fissure vents opened up. The lava fountains could be seen in the south of the island and a lava flow destroyed three farms near the village of Reykjahlíð, although nobody was harmed.

Between 1975 and 1984 there was a volcanic episode within the Krafla volcano. It involved nine volcanic eruptions and fifteen uplift and subsidence events. This interupted some of the Krafla drillfields. During these events a large magma chamber emerged. This has been identified by analysing the seismic activity.

Since 1977 the Krafla area has been the source of the geothermal energy used by a 60 MWe power station. A survey undertaken in 2006 indicated very high temperatures at depths of between 3 and 5 kilometres and these favourable conditions have led to the development of the first well from the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), that found magma only 2.1 km deep.

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