Rivulets of water, ranging in temperature from frigid to scalding, pour down a gravelly hillside in one of Iceland’s largest and most peculiar geothermal fields, forming a fluidly abstract landscape of undular texture and strange tones. Behind such alien beauty often lurks hidden danger, and this area certainly qualifies. Some of the island’s most notorious eruptions (including Krafla, which is part of the same fissure zone) have split the earth open nearby with disastrous results.
3 E Skutustadahreppur, Iceland (22 Aug 14) Looking NW
65.6413, -16.8099Geothermal Waterscape
Rivulets of water, ranging in temperature from frigid to scalding, pour down a gravelly hillside in one of Iceland’s largest and most peculiar geothermal fields, forming a fluidly abstract landscape of undular texture and strange tones. Behind such alien beauty often lurks hidden danger, and this area certainly qualifies. Some of the island’s most notorious eruptions (including Krafla, which is part of the same fissure zone) have split the earth open nearby with disastrous results.
3 E Skutustadahreppur, Iceland (22 Aug 14) Looking NW
65.6413, -16.8099