Iceland's volcanoes have already demonstrated their power and unpredictability in recent times. Now, Katla, lying dormant under the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, has caught the attention of experts.

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(This guest post previously appeared at The Oil Drum and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License) While it is early in the morning in Europe the ...

Volcanoes They’ve built Iceland and kept it ... and I tried to press east to another volcano, Katla, whose jökulhlaup in 1918 had nearly carried off their grandfather while he was bringing ...