Magma degassing and fragmentation during the 1918 Katla eruption

• Main Authors: Owen, Jacqueline, Tuffen, Hugh, Coats, Becky
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Katla; Sólheimajökull; Iceland
• Online Access: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/74467/

The last eruption of the restless, ice-covered Katla volcanic system in south Iceland was a 1 km3 (DRE) explosive subglacial basaltic event in 1918, which released a 8 km3 meltwater flood. We have sampled both the 1918 jökulhlaup deposit and airfall tephra preserved on Sólheimajökull. Sampling of mu...