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ON April 10 I received from Dr. Jóhannes Áskelsson of Reykjavik a specimen of the new lava from Hekla. Dr. Áskelsson states that the eruption began on March 29 at 7 a.m. (Icelandic time), and several lava streams began to flow in different directions. The specimen he sent was taken from the surface of the moving lava of a stream flowing east from the northern end of the Hekla ridge. It is a typical aa or block lava.
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"Travels in Iceland during the Summer of 1810" (Edinburgh, 1811).
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 33, 783 (1922).
Askelsson, J., Soc. Scient. Islandica, 18, 55 (1936).
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TYRRELL, G. The New Lava from Hekla. Nature 159, 646 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159646b0
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