ocr: Iceland's trialby fire Photographs by Steve Winter Superheated by: scalding magma, Water.flashes to steam atthe bottom of a 600-foot-deep chasm in Iceland's Vatnajokull glacier. Like a hellish scene from a medievall imagination, this hissing cauldron yawned open last fall when one of the largest volcanic eruptions to hit Iceland this century rumbled to life beneath the country's biggest ice cap. For: two weeks ash andi steam billowed skyward as elemental forces clashed in thermal battle (farright). Yet this violent: spectacle was but a prelude to the watery cataclysm that would follow.
