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Hverir, located south of the Krafla area, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
Hverir, located south of the Krafla area, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles, exhibiting sulfur deposits everywhere.
The western Front in Flanders, one of the most terrible battlefields of the First World War, which raged more than a hundred years ago. Untill today the real reason for this horror is unknown.
In this trenchwar an entire generation was wiped out from all camps.
There was hardly any means of communication because the telephone lines were destroyed with every artillery attack. This was so bad that in the course of the war they had to make do with carrier pigeons and dogs that scattered the orders from the armies.
The newest and most devastating weapons were deplayed such as the machine gun, flamethrowers, airplanes and super cannons with shells weighing 7,1 tons that had a range of 38 kilometers!!
Due to the very inaccurate determination of the targets, the enitire battlefields were plowed by the heavy shells so streams and the water table changed while the battlefields became a large mud pool.
The men fought like lions, but were led by donkeys such as the Frenchman Ferdinand Foch, the German Rupprecht von Bayern and the Englisman Douglas Haig and other consorts, best described as butchers!
The life of the men was hell because of the constant threat of death and the exposure to heavy bombardements from the heavy artillery....
Moving mud from boiling mudpools in Hverir, a geothermal area of the Krafla volcano in northern Iceland.
Hverir, located south of the Krafla area, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
Stinky place, majestic as everything in the country. So many unique places there, even if its a cheap phrase.
Hverir geothermal area located near Lake Mývatn is full of natural steam vents and bubbling mud pools. Everything arould smells of sulphur.
Mud pools in Hverir, Iceland. That was a long time ago, I am getting lazy with the photo edition, so it mean catch up mode again.
This morning a visit to the Strokkur Geyser where we had time to walk among the steaming mudpools of the Geysir geothermal area. The Strokker Geyser shoots water and steam high into the air every few minutes; there can't have been a disappointed photographer anywhere.
I made a video of the geyser in action and haven't been able to find it in my archive, so must make do with this still shot instead.
A power plant sits near the east end of the Grey Lagoon in the middle of the Reykjanes (Gunnuhver) Geothermal Field west of Grindavík, Iceland.
Surrounded by geothermal wells and power plant facilities, a geothermal drilling rig sits in the middle of the Reykjanes (Gunnuhver) Geothermal Field , west of Grindavík, Iceland. The lake in the middle of the photo is called by some the “Grey Lagoon”, after the famous Blue Lagoon which is a tourist attraction at a power plant northeast of this location on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Along the left side of the lake shore is a group of hot springs and mudpots called the Power Plant Group.
A wild place and the highlight of my trip to Iceland
Kerlingarfjöll is a 10,000 year old rhyolite mountain range that was formed from volcanic activity. It is located in the Icelandic highlands, which are a barren and uninhabitable region. It is only accessible by driving on unpaved F-roads.
Central Highlands of Iceland
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Exploding mud from the Hot Mud Pools - Rotorua NZ.
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Hverir is a lunar-like landscape of mud cauldrons, steaming vents, radiant mineral deposits and piping fumaroles. Belching mudflaps and the powerful stench of sulphur may not sound enticing, but Hverir’s ethereal allure grips every passer-by.
This runoff channel drains Seltúnshverir, the thermal basin at Seltún on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. The thermal area contains solfataras (fumaroles), mud pools and steaming ground and hot springs pools.
Seltún is part of the large Geothermal field which lies on the NE-SW trending Krýsuvík volcanic system. This system is one of the volcanic zones that lie along the fissure zones on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland.
Seltún is located in the Reykjanes Geopark.
References:
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at: www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
Krafla is a volcanic caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone. It is located in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region and is situated on the Iceland hotspot atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which forms the divergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m and it is 2 km in depth. There have been 29 reported eruptions in recorded history.
Iceland is a place where it is possible to see plate tectonics at work. It sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; the western part of the island nation is part of the roughly westward-moving North American plate, while the eastern part of the island is part of the roughly eastward-moving Eurasian Plate. The north–south axis of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge splits Iceland in two, roughly north to south. Along this ridge many of Iceland's most active volcanoes are located; Krafla is one of these.
Krafla includes the crater Víti, one of two well-known craters by this name in Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. Víti has a green lake inside of it.
South of the Krafla area, but not actually within the caldera is Námafjall, a mountain, beneath which is Hverir, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
The Mývatn fires occurred between 1724 and 1729, 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 interrupted 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 led to the development of the first well from the Iceland Deep Drilling Project that found magma 2.1 km deep beneath the surface.
Mudpools in Rotorua! Everyone had warned us of the terrible smell of sulphur, but we must have gone there on a good day as it wasn't that bad and only got the slight whiff!
Steam rises from fumaroles at Seltúnshverir on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. This thermal area lies Just off the road to Krýsuvík at Seltún. The solfatara field contains fumeroles, hot springs, mud pools and steaming ground. Fumeroles are the dominate thermal feature and deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumeroles whose steam is rich in sulpur are called solfataras. The main sulphur aree is a fumerole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulphur and sulphates are found in at least small amounts around most of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs. Yellow patches on the ground were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. in Iceland. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and is visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilisation, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the suface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey believe "the water of the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away."
Feference:
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at:http://www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
Last week my eldest daughter (26 yrs) and I made a trip to Iceland, to catch up, enjoy the landscape and take some images.
Hope you like the view as much as we did.
Elmarit 24mm, 21 sec.
An updated version of an image taken back in July 2015 using Silver Efex Pro 2 for the B&W conversion and processing.
At the foothills of the spectacular volcanic mountain Namafjall is an expanse of hot springs called Hverarondor Hverir. You may find a number of fumaroles, mud pools and mud pots that all seem to be boiling with relentless energy.
Steam rises from a water filled vent at Seltúnshverir on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. This thermal area lies just off the road to Krýsuvík at Seltún. This solfatara field contains fumaroles, hot springs, mud pools and steaming ground. Fumaroles are the dominate thermal feature and deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulpur are called solfataras. The main sulphur aree is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulphur and sulphates are found in at least small amounts around most of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs. Yellow patches on the ground were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. in Iceland. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and is visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilisation, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the surface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey believe "the water of the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away.”
Feference:
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at:http://www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
Brennisteinshverir á Þeistareykjum.
High-temperature geothermal area in northern Iceland, with boiling mud pools and colorful solfataras.
Fumaroles vent on a jagged hillside at Seltúnshverir. This thermal area lies Just off the road to Krýsuvík at Seltún, this solfatara field contains fumaroles, hot springs, mud pools and steaming ground. Fumaroles are the dominate thermal feature and deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulphur are called solfataras. The main sulphur area is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulphur and sulphates are found in at least small amounts around most of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs. Yellow patches on the ground were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. In Iceland. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and is visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilization, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportedly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the surface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey report that "the water in the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away."
Feference:
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at:http://www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
Hveradalir í Kerlingarfjöllum
Early september hike through Hveradalir geothermal area in Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland.
Kamtchatka, Russia
The volcano emits smoke (foreground) that is grayer than the clouds (background).
Le volcan émet des fumées (avant plan) plus grises que les nuages (arrière plan).
Námaskarð
At the foothills of this spectacular volcanic mountain is an expanse of hot springs called Hveraröndor Hverir that are known for their changing variety. You may also find a number of fumaroles, mud pools and mud pots that all seem o be boiling with relentless energy.
Highlands of Iceland. September 2015.
Kamtchatka, Russia
The Karymski volcano is crowned by a crater (1,536m) that rises within a 5-km-wide caldera. The majority of the volcano's cone consists of flows that are less than 200 years old. It is one of the most active volcanoes in the region, it has been erupting continuously since 1996 with sometimes very high plumes of ash.
Le volcan Karymski est couronné par un cratère (1 536m) qui s'élève dans une caldeira de 5 km de diamètre. La majorité du cône du volcan est constituée de coulées ayant moins de 200 ans. C'est l'un des volcans les plus actifs de la région, il est en éruption continue depuis 1996 avec parfois des panaches de cendre très élevés.
Hippos are NOT friendly creatures. They are highly aggressive and unpredictable in their behavior. They can reach speeds of 19mph on land.
This one was not happy that we had stopped near its mudhole to take a peek--- came charging over quickly to show its displeasure.
This is a look back at our 2018 safari. More photos from this amazing trip can be seen in my Safari Album www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72157669809103977
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/photos/111706913
Jenny Pansing Photos
Just off the road to Krýsuvík is a solfatara field at Seltún which contains fumaroles, mud pools and steaming ground. Fumaroles in the area deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulpur are called solfataras. The main sulphur area is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulpur and sulphates are found around many of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs. Yellow spots of sulphur were visible to us as we strolled along the basin.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. in Iceland. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and is visible along the south of Reykjanes Peninsula.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilisation, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. On this day we saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the suface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey believe "the water of the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away."
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from thier web page at:http://www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
So am I a dreamer
If I still dream about you?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtvA2TZVzc
Will I see you again?
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Krafla is a volcanic caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone. It is located in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region and is situated on the Iceland hotspot atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which forms the divergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m and it is 2 km in depth. There have been 29 reported eruptions in recorded history.
Iceland is a place where it is possible to see plate tectonics at work. It sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; the western part of the island nation is part of the roughly westward-moving North American plate, while the eastern part of the island is part of the roughly eastward-moving Eurasian Plate. The north–south axis of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge splits Iceland in two, roughly north to south. Along this ridge many of Iceland's most active volcanoes are located; Krafla is one of these.
Krafla includes the crater Víti, one of two well-known craters by this name in Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes.[citation needed] Víti has a green lake inside of it.
South of the Krafla area, but not actually within the caldera is Námafjall, a mountain, beneath which is Hverir, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
The Mývatn fires occurred between 1724 and 1729, 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 interrupted 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 led to the development of the first well from the Iceland Deep Drilling Project that found magma 2.1 km deep beneath the surface.
Trails in a geothermal mud pool.
There was some very slow drift in the mud to the right of the picture which was creating these patterns as bubbles of noxious gasses worked their way to the surface!
The usual smell of rotten eggs accompanied the views.
Taken at Whakarewarewa Maori Village, Rotorua.
The village is a working village and they live with the geothermal activity. Cooking in the boiling fumaroles and bathing in the not so hot pools.