Dramatic images of the volcano Bardarbunga violently spewing lava and molton ash have emerged - suggesting that Iceland was quite right to ban all flights over the area. Craters spit out lava as molten rock flows into a river in the stunning images taken over the Holuhraun lava fields in the Icelandic highlands. The country's Met Office  issued a 'red alert' at the end of August after the Bardarbunga volcano, which lies underneath the Vatnajökull glacier, experienced a 'small' eruption. Craters spit out lava as molten rock flows into a river in the stunning images taken over the Holuhraun lava fields in the Icelandic highlands.
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Craters spit out lava as molten rock flows into a river in the stunning images taken over the Holuhraun lava fields
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Met Office issued a 'red alert' at the end of August after the Bardarbunga volcano experienced a 'small' eruption
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Move echoed the Eyjafjallajokull ash cloud disaster which brought European air travel to  standstill for six days in 2010
Bardarbunga
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Bardarbunga
@placeholder is located under Iceland’s largest glacier and it has been rocked by thousands of earthquakes for nearly two weeks