Iceland Drilling Company Rig (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Iceland Drilling Company Rig

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This is the Iceland Drilling Company rig at the Krafla geothermal field, in northern Iceland, that drilled into 900 C rhyolite magma at 2,140 meters depth in June 2009.

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W. Elders, UC Riverside.

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