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New finding on mercury-volcanic link could re-write history on past annihilations


Scientists have uncovered a lot about the Earth's greatest extinction event that took place 250 million years ago when rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority of those on land. Now, they have discovered a new culprit likely involved in the annihilation: an influx of mercury into the eco-system....


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This graphic shows historical variations of Mercury (Hg) deposition before and after the Latest Permian Extinction event as recorded in a sedimentary section in the High Arctic, Canada. The vertical...
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New earthquake activity in Upptyppingar tuff mountains
Posted on January 7, 2012 by Jón Frímann
During last week and on 5. January 2012 there where few earthquakes in the Upptyppingar tuff mountains. This mountains are not volcano by definition (yet anyway). But since the year 2007 there has been magma intrusion into that area. This magma intrusion however stopped and has been stopped for several years now. But that might be about to change. As on 5 January 2012 there where few small earthquakes with the depth of 12 km. Last eruption that took place in the Upptyppingar tuff mountain area where about 12.000 years ago, around the end of the last ice age. Considerable deformation has taken place in the crust in Upptyppingar tuff mountain since magma started to build up there. Current earthquake activity in Upptyppingar tuff mountain is not high at the moment however. But it has remained rather constant for the past 7 to 10 weeks at least. But due to lack of SIL stations in the area, it is hard to know how many earthquakes have exactly been taking place there at the moment.

Upptyppingar tuff mountains are part of Kverkfjöll volcano system. This new magma into Upptyppingar tuff mountains suggests that Kverkfjöll volcano might be about to enter an new time of activity. But they have been dormant since the year 1968 at least. But Kverkfjöll volcano have also been seeing some earthquake activity on its own.

It is most likely is the case that we are going to see eruption taking place in Upptyppingar tuff mountain one day. But the wait for it might be long however.

[link to www.jonfr.com]

News from Jon now Katla but anyway...

Glacier flood from Grímsvatn lake on Grímsfjall volcano

It has just been announced in the news that Grímsvant glacier lake has just had an glacier flood, but this lake is in the Grímsfjall volcano caldera. This glacier flood is believed to have started yesterday around 12:00 UTC.

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[link to www.jonfr.com]




Grímsvötn Volcano:
[link to www.volcano.si.edu]


Glacier flood Iceland Explain(PDf)
[link to www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net]


Here's a nice Gif from the last eruption MAY 2011:
[link to 30.media.tumblr.com]

something is happening in Iceland.

[link to hraun.vedur.is]

check out all the tremor stations on that page. all in the south showing a steady, definite rise in activity.

it's very subtle on some of them, but there.

Katla seems to be showing the most activity though.

[link to hraun.vedur.is]

jmo

And you see this? [link to www.simnet.is]

[link to en.vedur.is]

activity picking up again.

[link to en.vedur.is]

Encircling Love!

I pop open the latest activity image each time I sit down to read the news. This current activity is a bit different. Probably does not mean much, but one day, according to Katla history, the pressure will release. Time will tell.

those quakes between Katla and e15 are a bit suspicious

almost as if a load of smegma just broke through between the two?