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Kröflueldar - Gjástykki

Kröflueldar voru hrina eldgosa og kvikuhlaupa sem áttu sér stað við Kröflu frá 20. desember 1975 til 18. september 1984.

 

In spots enough dust of earth hand come together and sparse vegetation found root.

 

Kröflueldar lava came up in serie of volkanic eruption on a fissure or area of fissure. The eruption started in december 1975 and continued with pauses until september 1984

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This lava was very hot and run almost like water from the active fissure and into area of older lava and heatherland , split up by fissures and cracks. Sometimes the new lava filed up an area other times it came up at one fissure to float down the next crack.

This type of volkano activity is related to hte shield volkanos but on a fissures outside a main volkano, which makes it different from the 40 year activ Havaii shileld volkano Mauna Loa,

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