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🌋 Did you know lava flows are more complex than just two types, the classic ʻaʻā and pāhoehoe? A detailed study of Iceland’s massive #Holuhraun eruption by Joana R.C. Voigt, Christopher W. Hamilton and co-researchers shows that most lava is between classic types, and surface texture alone doesn’t tell the full story. Learn more from their dataset and article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.12971129 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107278. Image: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 #OpenData #OpenScience #LavaFlows #PlanetaryScience

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"But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
In his dim mist the aspiring mountain hiding,
From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get,
Which blows these pitchy vapours from their biding,
Hindering their present fall by this dividing."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Rape of Lucrece

The August 2014 - February 2015 #Holuhraun #eruption of Bárðarbunga¹ in south-east central #Iceland, imaged in September 2014.

¹ 𝘽𝙖𝙬-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳-𝘣𝘶𝘯-𝘬𝘦

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