Volcano–ice interactions at Prestahnúkur, Iceland: rhyolite eruption during the last interglacial– glacial transition. Annals of Glaciology 45

• Main Authors: D. W. Mcgarvie, J. A. Stevenson, R. Burgess, H. Tuffen, A. G. Tindle
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Prestahnúkur; Ice Sheet; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.224; http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/vgrg/People/hugh/pdfs/McGarvie et al Ann Glac 2007.pdf

ABSTRACT. Prestahnúkur is a 570m high rhyolite glaciovolcanic edifice in Iceland’s Western Rift Zone with a volume of 0.6 km3. Uniform whole rock, mineral and glass compositions suggest that Prestahnúkur was constructed during the eruption of one magma batch. Ar-Ar dating gives an age of 8924 ka,...