Upstream from the more famous Dettifoss, Selfoss actually is a series of at least a dozen (depending on water levels) individual cascades that tumble over the side of a remarkably long, level cliff face that angles obliquely across the Jokulsa A Fjollum River. The base of one of the bigger members of Selfoss is seen here, spraying across dislodged blocks of basalt in ghostly procession. These waters drain not only the north part of Icelands largest glacier, Vatnajokull, but also, fresh and hot new lava fields poured across the Holuhraun plain by the Bardarbunga fissure eruption that began just a few days after we left. In fact, those lava flows oozed down part of the riverbed well upstream from here, relocating the stream farther east.
9 NNW Holssel, Iceland (21 Aug 14) Looking SW
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