Uintah Basin Record | 1937-08-13 | Page 3 | Iceland Floods Caused by Underground Fires

Iceland Floods Caused I by hy Underground Fires London Floods in most places are caused by water from the skies Floods in Iceland Ice Ice- land very land very destructive ones too too have have been caused by fires under the earth Investigations by Dr Niels Nielsen Nielsen Nielsen Niel Niel- sen Copenhagen geologist show that two recent destructive floods in Iceland were caused by the eruptions eruptions eruptions of f volcanic vents opening tinder under under un un- der thick glaciers The heat melted the ice rapidly and in such vast quantity quan- quan J 4 that the total water volume of the larger of oC the two floods is I esl estimated at it Il billion cubic feet I ki l u w L lr r