Efnisyfirlit

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Keflavik to Reykjavik
• 3 Reykjavik
• 4 Reykjavik to Thingvellir (Þingvellir)
• 4.1 Esja—Spreading Rate and Structure
• 4.2 Magma Chamber and Collapse Caldera
• 4.3 Subsiding Crustal Segment—A Graben
• 5 Thingvellir (Þingvellir)
• 5.1 Almannagja (Almannagjá)
• 5.2 Peningagja and Flosagja (Peningagjá and Flosagjá)
• 5.3 How Do the Fractures Form?
• 5.4 How Deep Are the Fractures?
• 5.5 When Will the Next Eruption Occur?
• 6 Thingvellir (Þingvellir) to Geysir
• 6.1 Hrafnagja (Hrafnagjá)
• 6.2 Botnsulur and Armannsfell (Botnsúlur and Ármannsfell)
• 6.3 Hrafnabjörg Table Mountain
• 6.4 Skjaldbreidur (Skjaldbreiður) Lava Shield
• 6.5 Laugarvatnshellar and Hyaloclastites
• 6.6 The Importance of Power Laws in Natural (and Human) Processes
• 6.7 Pillow Lavas
• 7 Geysir
• 7.1 Mechanism of Eruption
• 7.2 Geothermal Fields
• 7.3 Geysers and Earthquakes
• 7.4 Heat Sources
• 8 Gullfoss
• 8.1 Why Has Gullfoss Two Oblique Steps?
• 8.2 How Did the Canyon Evolve?
• 9 Gullfoss-Kerid (Kerið)-Reykjavik
• 9.1 Earthquake Faults and Mountain Shapes
• 9.2 Pit Crater
• 9.3 Rockfalls and Earthquakes
• 9.4 Lava Erupted in the Year 1000
• 9.5 The Youngest Lava Flow to Have Entered Reykjavik
• 10 Other One-Day Geological Excursions from Reykjavik
• 11 Reykjavik-Hvalfjördur (Hvalfjörður)
• 11.1 Magma Transport Inside a Volcano
• 11.2 Volcanic Systems and Dike Swarms
• 11.3 Sandpit, Secondary Minerals, and Dike Propagation
• 11.4 Difference Between Eruptive Fractures (Dikes) and Earthquake Fractures (Faults)
• 11.5 Landscapes, Landforms, and the Hvalfjördur Volcano
• 11.6 What Does the Thingvellir Graben Look like at Great Depth?
• 11.7 Vertical Section Through Two Lava Shields
• 11.8 Table Mountain Hvalfell
• 12 Reykjavik-Hengill
• 12.1 Hyaloclastite Ridge
• 12.2 Feeder-Dike
• 12.3 Geology of Hengill—Overview
• 12.4 Geothermy
• 12.5 The Nesjahraun Lava
• 12.6 Major Faults
• 13 Reykjavik-Kleifarvatn-Reykjanes
• 13.1 Lava Channels
• 13.2 Sveifluhals (Sveifluháls) and Kleifarvatn
• 13.3 Kleifarvatn—Controlled by Fractures
• 13.4 Fracture Sets and Volcanic Eruptions
• 13.5 The Structure of Sveifluhals (Sveifluháls)
• 13.6 Deformation Bands and Fluid Flow
• 13.7 Geothermal Fields
• 13.8 Explosion Craters—Maars
• 13.9 Table Mountain Cut in Half
• 13.10 Young Lava Flow and a Graben
• 13.11 Volcanic Fissure and Flow Channelling
• 13.12 Reykjanes—Lava Shields and Lava Fields
• 13.13 An 800-Year-Old Fissure Eruption
• 13.14 Details of 800-Year-Old Feeder and Non-feeder Dikes
• 13.15 Bridge Between Two Continents
• 14 Reykjavik-Eyjafjallajökull-Reynisfjara
• 14.1 Largest Lava Flow Erupted on Earth in the Past 10 Thousand Years
• 14.2 Earthquake Fractures from the Year 2000
• 14.3 Hekla Volcano
• 14.4 Seljalandsfoss Waterfall
• 14.5 Eyjafjallajökull Volcano—Internal Structure and the 2010 Eruptions
• 14.6 Skogarfoss (Skógarfoss) Waterfall
• 14.7 Petursey (Pétursey)—An Island on Dry Land
• 14.8 A Village Threatened by the Eruptions of the Katla Volcano
• 14.9 Myrdalssandur (Mýrdalssandur)
• 14.10 How Large Are the Outburst Floods?
• 14.11 Katla Volcano
• 14.12 The Beach of Reynisfjara
• Glossary
• References and Further Reading
• Index