Deep crustal reflectors under Reydarfjordur, eastern Iceland: crustal accretion above the Iceland mantle plume

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Smallwood, John R., White, Robert S., Staples, Robert K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1998
• Subjects: Articles; Faroe-Iceland Ridge; Iceland
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/134/1/277; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246x.1998.00593.x

Deep seismic reflection profiling on the Faroe-Iceland Ridge Experiment (FIRE) imaged a sequence of dipping events in the upper to mid-crust beneath the Tertiary lava pile in Reydarfjördur, eastern Iceland. These events dip towards the spreading centre at which the crust was formed, and continue dow...