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Not again! Icelandic volcano threatens air routes

Deep under the ice of Iceland's Vatnajokull glacier, pressure began to build. Flows of liquid rock pushed against the earth's solid crust, churning hot and dangerous in the subterranean dark. Finally, the ground shook, shivered and cracked. Jets of red-hot gas and rock burst through the icecap, launching plumes of steam and ash miles into the darkening sky.

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