ocr: Detober 1991 Space-age look ata ani ice-age event Eyeing the eruption from arc une above (facing page), scientists 2ou gained newi insights into the uge of ancient upheavals that forged Area Iceland's dramatic! landscape. below enlarged "Subglacial venting probably shaped the land int this region more than anything else," says Gudmundsson. "Yet this was the first time we' vel been: able to observe such an eruption an rinn from beginning to end." To study each phase, he spent many hours in: an air- plane, wheeling like: al hawk Grimsvotn 5683 abovet the ice. Earth-orbiting satellites, meanwhile ...
