Volcanic Hornitos in Selfoss, Iceland 🔥 6.600 BC

Finally I have identified and found real lava hornitos here in Iceland. I presume they had higher cone edges on the sides but through the centuries most of the cones got eroded as they are next to the biggest river in Iceland.

They emerged during an ancient lava flow, when lava bursta through the crust from the lava undercrust flow, the deep lava tubes.

So those are not volcanic vents but lava burst-outs from the underground lava flows,through the crust up, pumping lava being pushed by gas pressure or some other reason.

Filmed today on my drive from work home.
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This lava is from 6.600 BC, from the largest lava flow on the planet that flooded 970 square km (26 m thick lava layer!):

The Great Þjórsá Lava  is the largest lava flow in Iceland (by both area and volume) and the largest lava that is known to have erupted in a single eruption in the Holocene. It belongs to a group of lavas known as the Tungná lavas. It was erupted in the Veiðivötn region, Central Iceland, 6600 BC. The crater area is covered by younger lavas and eruptives. The Þjórsá Lava does not appear on the surface until 70 km downstream of its supposed crater area.

In the lowlands of South Iceland the lava has overflown wide areas, covering the districts Landsveit, Gnúpverjahreppur, Skeið and Flói. The main rivers of South Iceland, Þjórsá and Hvítá/Ölfusá, stream along the borders of the lava to the east and west and the 25 km (16 mi) long beach between the river mouths is formed by the lava. The sea level seems to have been around 15 m (49 ft) lower than today when the lava was erupted. Along with the rising sea level the ocean has transgressed the lava front so its border line is submerged several hundreds of metres off-shore and an interesting littoral zone can be inspected along the beach.

The towns of Selfoss, Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri are built on the lava. Its area is around 970 km2 (370 sq mi), the thickness 26 m (85 ft) and volume therefore close to 26 km3 (6.2 cu mi). The Þjórsá lava is porphyritic with large light coloured feldspar phenocrysts sitting in a dark, fine grained ground mass.

The littoral part of the Great Þjórsá Lava can be inspected off the seawalls of Stokkseyri and Eyrarbakki. During low tide the Atlantic waves break at the submerged lava front far off-shore but closer to the beach small channels in between flat lava skerries, grown with seaweed, indicate the landscape.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ej%C3%B3rs%C3%A1_Lava

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