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LIVE 10.07.23 Volcano eruption started in Iceland! Drone live stream Litli-Hrútur Volcano Is 10 Times Bigger Than 2021 Iceland Fagradalsfjall Meradalir Volcano LIVE 09.07.23 New volcano eruption expected in Iceland! Drone live stream 10 LIVE: New Volcanic Eruption Expected in Iceland Volcanic eruption has started near Litli-Hrútur Iceland Monitor, July 10, 2023 Yours, Paul H.

Hello, forum! I recently came back from a long polar summer trip in Iceland. I was not ready for the hot air in Texas but luckily I brought some rain back with me to help with the drought conditions in DFW! I got to stay there getting to learn about my family’s culture. Homebase was in Hveragerði so I got to go to Vík a lot! I also stayed in the capital for a little bit which was fun! During my adventure I got to see glaciers, felt mini earthquakes/tremors, went to many hot springs, went to all the popular waterfalls, climbed a few volcanos. As long as I was there however I didn’t get to see the whole country! I only got to see the south, west, and some of the northwest fjord areas. Bull-Giant territories. Next time Eagle-Dragon territories for sure. *I didnt get to see the new eruption near Blue Lagoon unfortunately, I just missed it! Maybe the country is mad I left. If you’ve never been, there are almost no fossils to find there but some amazing stones and rock formations! Its a very rocky, bumpy, volcanic island. Rockslides happen, fog happens, volcanos are normal and eruptions can happen. It’s illegal to take anything from nature home- except when I went to the lava show in Vík where I got a sand necklace and glass fibers they made called “witches hair”. Most beautiful country I’ve ever been too! Very happy to know its second home and that the region is part of my life. If you ever visit there please be respectful of the nature. Best part of temporarily living in Iceland is: Fresh air, fresh local seafood, fresh dairy made next door in Selfoss, local made products, dramatic landscapes, midnight sun was a cool experience, black sand/dark rocks, cooking bread and boiling eggs in the hot springs daily (sulphur smell!), horsies are the perfect size for me, clean water, mild temperatures in late winter-summer, the names for landmarks and cities are a literal translations of a combination of nouns, and best of all it’s a “green” country that runs on geothermal so never-ending hot water in shower! (no it did not smell like eggs.) I love that its NEVER allowed to drive or park offroad to protect the nature. It’s also illegal to disturb large stacked stones usually seen in the country (ancient settler path markers!) however I saw people in the capital coastline and beach do it with tiny stones which is fine- just don't do it on the grasslands. Iceland was overall the best experience of my life! If you love geology- this is a great place to visit. Rock pictures! *It wouldn’t let me upload more photos but here are some attachments! Bonus pic of fox at a shelter, puffin photo through my binoculars, abandoned wild puffin burrows I found. Also-eider ducks! I have about a thousand pictures of food and animals as well.

Good morning, Can you help me to identify this fossil please? It was found in Iceland. In the Snaefellsnes region (west), next to the Eldborg crater. Thank you

Hi! I found this bone on a remote, virgin beach in northern Iceland just the other day. I’m completely green when it gets to those topics and have thus no idea what it can have come from. Possibly a piece of a large fish or seal vertebra? Any ideas? Can anybody help me identify the bone?

Iceland may be the tip of a sunken continent By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science, July 28, 2921 'Icelandia' was lost to the sea 10 million years ago. Foulger, G.R., Gernigon, L., and Geoffroy, L., 2021, Icelandia, in Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy, D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science: Geological Society of America Special Paper 553 Foulger et al. (2021), PDF file Foulger et al. (2021), GSA abstract Foulger, G.R., Doré, T., Emeleus, C.H., Franke, D., Geoffroy, L., Gernigon, L., Hey, R., Holdsworth, R.E., Hole, M., Höskuldsson, Á. and Julian, B., 2020. The Iceland microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe ridge. Earth-Science Reviews, 206, p.102926. Foulger et al. (2020) PDF - Researchgate Foulger et al. (2020) PDF - Semantic Scholar Foulger, G., Gernigon, L. and Geoffroy, L., 2021, April. Icelandia. In EGU General Assembly Conference  Abstracts (pp. EGU21-13797). Yours, Paul H.

I have been thinking about going to Iceland for quite a time, but Covid has made travelling a bit complicated, so when everyone was finally fully vaccinated, we decided to hit the road. We were told that June is actually one of the best months to visit Iceland – with the summer (which over there starts in April) in full swing, with crazy 15 to 20 degrees C. Well… we feel super special, as THIS June was actually the coldest in 45 years, so … But, you’ll see what it looked like on pictures. We landed in Keflavik, and after a short stop to get the Covid test result, we started the trip around Iceland. The first thing we saw was the lava flowing from the newest volcano on Iceland – Geldingadalir. Basically, Iceland’s landscape is quite uniform, as the whole island is covered with lava, with very little vegetation. It has a lot of geothermal fields, sulphur springs, hot springs and lakes of course – waterfalls (app. 4500). There are several different types of waterfalls – some are famous because of the volume of water others, because you can actually walk behind them Yet another type is the so-called lava waterfall – as the water comes from hundreds of cracks in the lava field: Lava is (naturally) one of the main attractions in Iceland – I do recommend going to one of the lava tunnels, which have truly fantastic colours: You have to be careful, as there are lots of icicles everywhere The walls show how subsequent layers were accumulated Lava plays also the main part in the Vestmannaeyjar Island, as during the eruption in 1973, it destroyed ¼ of the town – you can still see the remains of houses: But the island is also home to one of Iceland’s symbol – the puffin birds

See amazing live video of volcano eruption in Iceland. As the flow goes over wet meadows, steam happens. I would imagine that underground creature will be trapped and become fossils in the future. You can rewind it a few hours and see the flow progression, helicopters and scientists probably collecting fresh lava samples. Note at least 5 people next to flow at bottom of detail photo. https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/beint-vefstreymi-fra-eldstodvunum On 14:23, March 21st the right wall of the crater collapses send a flow down the side.

Live feed of erupting volcano near Reykjavic, Iceland. I just saw several people at the edge of the flow. https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/beint-vefstreymi-fra-eldstodvunum

Swarm of 20,000 earthquakes could siginal volcanic eruptions in Iceland Live Science The Hill The New York Timesl Yorus,

Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption The island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month. Authorities warn that its Grimsvotn volcano, Iceland's most active, could erupt soon. DWcom, June 22, 2020 https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-hit-by-thousands-of-quakes-and-threat-of-volcanic-eruption/a-53902116 Yours, Paul H.

Being a native or born in Iceland and being a fossil nut who loves fossil whales and other Marine Mammals I am specially proud of a recent discovery and a Publication Of Iceland's first and only known fossil Whale from the Tjörnes Formation. in the early Pliocene. One of our own forum member Boesse was one of the co-author's that worked on the scientific paper about this whale. Well I will let you read a copy of the paper. .....I hope you all enjoy it and if Boesse is reading this I would like to thank you for telling me a few years back about you working on this specimen which made it easy to find because I follow you on Twitter. Field_et_al-2017-Palaeontology.pdf

With Iceland at the top of world interest in volcanic activity recently, I thought it would be interesting to present a geological snapshot of plant preservation from the Icelandic volcanic ash layers of the Miocene of Surtarbrandsgil, Western Fjords. There are four volcanic zones in Iceland and you can view the modern correlation here. For reference, the Western Fjords are located at the top left of the map quite a distance from currently active zones. Here's another great link with a comprehensive catalog of the Miocene flora of Iceland. These fossils represent a preview of Icelandic fossil flora currently fossilizing beneath massive ash depositions for the next geologic age. Cool!