Open University Department of Earth Sciences
Subglacial rhyolite volcanoes
by Hugh Tuffen
Lancaster Unversity Department of Environmental Sciences

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Columnar-jointed rhyolite lava flow at Bláhnúkur, Torfajökull, Iceland.

Introduction

Subglacial effusive eruptions

Subglacial-to-emergent eruptions

Models of melting patterns during eruptions

Ice-volcano bibliography

Ice-volcano links


SE Rauðufossafjöll, a subglacial-to-emergent rhyolite tuya at Torfajökull.


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