The Holuhraun eruption produced in six months almost 12 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide (S02). That surpasses the amount of this toxic gas released by industry, transport and households in all of the EU-countries in 2011.
This is revealed in a new scientific new paper titled “Environmental pressure from the 2014–15 eruption of Bárðarbunga volcano, Iceland” published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters, which is a internationally peer-reviewed journal that publishes short, highest-quality articles spanning geochemical sciences.
The article is written by a group of scientists led by geochemist research professor Sigurður Reynir Gíslason at the University of Iceland.
The Holuhraun eruption began on 31 August 2014 and ended on 27 February 2015 after six months of continuous activity. According to the article the eruption generated minute amounts of volcanic ash, but large emissions of gases and a basaltic lava flow that is the largest by volume in Iceland since the infamous 1783‒1784 Laki eruption.
Read more: A marked hiking path through the vast new Holuhraun lava field has just been opened
Although the Holuhraun eruption was big, it dwarfs when compared with Laki which pumped up around 120 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide in just eight months and brought widespread misery around the northern hemisphere. In Iceland about 60 % of the grazing livestock and 20 % of the human population died.
The Holuhraun eruption produced in six months almost 12 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide (S02). That surpasses the amount of this toxic gas released by industry, transport and households in all of the EU-countries in 2011.
This is revealed in a new scientific new paper titled “Environmental pressure from the 2014–15 eruption of Bárðarbunga volcano, Iceland” published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters, which is a internationally peer-reviewed journal that publishes short, highest-quality articles spanning geochemical sciences.
The article is written by a group of scientists led by geochemist research professor Sigurður Reynir Gíslason at the University of Iceland.
The Holuhraun eruption began on 31 August 2014 and ended on 27 February 2015 after six months of continuous activity. According to the article the eruption generated minute amounts of volcanic ash, but large emissions of gases and a basaltic lava flow that is the largest by volume in Iceland since the infamous 1783‒1784 Laki eruption.
Read more: A marked hiking path through the vast new Holuhraun lava field has just been opened
Although the Holuhraun eruption was big, it dwarfs when compared with Laki which pumped up around 120 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide in just eight months and brought widespread misery around the northern hemisphere. In Iceland about 60 % of the grazing livestock and 20 % of the human population died.
