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Hekla is a stratovolcano, meaning a tall simple volcano with many layers of hardened lava, tephra and volcanic ash.Mt Hekla is located in Iceland and it is 1,491 m high. Hekla is Icelands most active volcano, having more than 20 eruptions occurring in and around the volcano since 874. 10% of the tephra produced in Iceland in the last 1000 years have come from Hekla, amounting to 5km.

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