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The entire surface of Lake Askja is now frozen again after all the ice was broken up and melted earlier this winter. There is evidence that increased geothermal heat in the area triggered this process, but the winds and mixing have helped. This is confirmed by Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir, geographer and dean of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland. ....
The thermometers, which were thrown into Lake Askja during a mission by geoscientists with the Coast Guard's TF-SIF last week, are now not found. “They are somewhere under the ice so we are thinking about putting in more meters,” says Ármann Höskuldsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences, who went on an expedition across the lake yesterday aboard a helicopter. ....
“If it goes on like this, it will end with a volcanic eruption. Not right now, but perhaps in a few months or years. For there will probably be more earthquakes and activity before the eruption. At least we hope so,” says Ármann Höskuldsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences. ....