volcanoes on ice!?!?!?!?!?!

Heat from the eruption instantly boiled ice to steam, which ramped up the eruptive power like a pressure cooker blowing its top. Magma hitting the steam exploded into tiny fragmented bits, sending pillars of fine-grained ash billowing overhead. It would have resembled the scene many people heard about on the news this spring — a volcano that erupted an hour’s drive to the east, known as Eyjafjallajökull (pronounced “AY-ya-FYAT-la-yo-kult”).


So as you just read up there a volcano erupted under ice and melt the ice so rapidly that it turned it to ash/steam and grounded all flights passing that route because it can make the engines fail.



What is a volcano?A volcano is simply an opening in the Earth’s surface in which eruptions of dust, gas, and magma occur; they form on land and on the ocean floor. The driving force behind eruptions is pressure from deep beneath the Earth’s surface as hot, molten rock wells up from the mantle. The results of this activity are a number of geological features, including the buildup of debris that forms a mound or cone commonly thought of as a volcano.
So i thought you wanted  to  see why/how a volcano erupts,so I put up this picture.
So you are wondering why do I think this is interesting,well I thought it is pretty cool it explodes!
OH YEAH!I also put on my blog experiments of volcano eruptions!