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Grímsvötn Volcano, Vatnajökull, Iceland
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Grímsvötn Volcano, Vatnajökull, Iceland (Basaltic Hyaloclastite)
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Grímsvötn Volcano, Vatnajökull, Iceland
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Grímsvötn Volcano, Vatnajökull, Iceland
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Grímsvötn Volcano Crater, Vatnajökull, Iceland
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Grímsvötn Volcano, Vatnajökull, Iceland
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Skeiðarársandur, outwash plain from Breiðamerkurjökull, site of Jokulhaup (glacial flood) from Grímsvötn eruption
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Skeiðarársandur – outwash plain from Breiðamerkurjökull, site of Jokulhaup (glacial flood) from Grímsvötn eruption
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Gigjukvisl River, Skeiðarársandur – outwash plain from Breiðamerkurjökull, site of Jokulhaup (glacial flood) from Grímsvötn eruption
Grímsvötn is a subglacial volcano at the heart of Vatnajökull glacier. It is Iceland's most frequently eruptive volcano. Previous eruptions at Grímsvötn have caused enormous, volcanically-generated Jökulhlaups (glacial outburst floods) into the Gigjuvisl river, on the Skeiðarársandur outwash plain.
I was invited to accompany a group of volcanologists and earth scientists on an expedition to the Grímsvötn caldera to observe ice-volcano interaction. The expedition was led by Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, of the University of Iceland in conjunction with IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior) and the Icelandic Glaciological Society.
My photographs document a space that is frequently subjected to eruptive transformation. My images describe both the Grímsvötn caldera and the site of Jökulhlaups on the Skeiðarársandur outwash plain.
