Volcanic Activity Melts Part of Glacier
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From Times Wire Reports
Volcanic eruptions beneath Europe’s largest glacier melted the cap of the icy mass, unleashing flood waters that swept away two bridges in Iceland. Flooding from the Vatnajokull glacier threatened a third bridge along the country’s southern coast, said Orn Egilsson, spokesman for Iceland’s civil defense agency. “The speed of the water is much more than people imagined,” he said of the flooding in a remote area 185 miles east of Reykjavik, the capital.
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