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A collective study published by sciencemag.org reveals a new understanding of the causes of some the largest eruptions in Icelandic history. The Bárðabunga eruption last year in Holuhraun north of the Vatnajökull ice cap, in the Icelandic Highlands, is the biggest eruption in Iceland in two centuries and the first one in history to be properly monitored. Scientist were able to place a number of measuring devices in and around the caldera during the eruption and monitor it quite closely. They published their findings yesterday.
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The eruption was “announced” by a series of earthquakes starting on August 16th 2014 and a few days later the caldera started to collapse in Bárðabunga. It took the magma two weeks to make its way to the surface of the crust and on august 31st the eruption started. The flow of lava lasted until February 27th leaving a brand new lava field of more than 85 km2, the largest since Skáftáreldar in 1783. ....

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