Rifting Kinematics Produced by Magmatic and Tectonic Stresses in the North Volcanic Zone of Iceland

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Alessandro Tibaldi, Fabio Luca Bonali, Federico Pasquaré Mariotto, Noemi Corti, Elena Russo, Páll Einarsson, Ásta Rut Hjartardóttir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: rift; Iceland; fault; fracture; stress; dyke; Science; Q; Husavik; Grímsey; Flatey
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00174; https://doaj.org/article/eea4e1df5d694ab3bcdfd4764fde76a2

In the North Volcanic Zone of Iceland, we studied with the greatest possible detail the complete structural architecture and kinematics of the whole Theistareykir Fissure Swarm (ThFS), an N-S-trending, 70 km long active rift. We made about 7500 measurements along 6124 post-Late Glacial Maximum (LGM)...