XXIX.—Petrography of Igneous Rocks from the Vatnajökull Region, Iceland, collected by Mr F. W. Anderson

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Tyrrell, G. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1949
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Vatnajökull; Kverkfjöll; Ice Sheet; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800019153; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800019153

In the following paper ninety-eight rocks collected by Mr F. W. Anderson from the Tertiary lavas and intrusions on the south-eastern margin of the Vatnajökull, and from the Pleistocene and Recent lavas, tuffs and sediments of Kverkfjöll Eystri on the northern margin of the ice-sheet, are described. Interest in the geology of the Vatnajökull region has been revived by several recent expeditions. The existence of active volcanoes under the Vatnajökull, and the eruptions that occasionally break through the ice-sheet, offer unexampled opportunities for the investigation of the peculiar igneous and sedimentary products which are the results of the contest between ice and volcanism, and for the solution of the “Palagonite Problem”, with which several authors have recently dealt.