FIRE FROM THE SKY: This false-color, short-wavelength infrared image of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano's smaller eruption in March shows the power ofthis glacier-covered volcano.
The areas covered by this material were so vast that the ice that deposited it must have been a continental glacier larger than Greenland or Antarctica.
这种物质覆盖的区域十分巨大,因此使其沉积下来的冰一定是比格陵兰岛或南极洲更大的大陆冰川。
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Ten thousand years ago, the area of Glacier National Park was covered by ice up to one mile below sea level.