Brute force: Huge 1,000-ton boulder carried down mountainside by power of Icelandic volcano

Towering above the landscape that surrounds it, this huge boulder is a graphic display of the awesome force created by an erupting volcano.

The 1,000-ton rock, which stands more than 50 feet high, tumbled to the valley floor after the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland earlier this year.

The giant stone was released by ice in a glacier that melted thanks to the fantastic heat produced by the erupting volcano. The melting glacier caused a meltwater flood, which swept the rock down the mountainside with it... Read More