Lava Fountaining Above The Volcanic Fissure Of The Holuhraun Flood (IMAGE)

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Lava Fountaining Above The Volcanic Fissure Of The Holuhraun Flood

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Lava fountaining above the volcanic fissure of the Holuhraun flood basalt eruption in Iceland in September 2014, which can be considered as a smaller scale analogue for the eruptions in the Deccan Traps, 65 million years ago.

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Michelle Parks (University of Iceland)

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