Petrology of the Western Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: JAKOBSSON, S. P., JÓNSSON, J., SHIDO, F.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1978
• Subjects: Articles; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/19/4/669; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/19.4.669

The active tholeiitic volcanic zone of the Reykjanes Peninsula consists of five volcanic fissure swarms, the two westernmost of which are the subject of this petrological study. The recent (less than 12,000 years) extrusives of the swarms group morphologically and petrographically into small picrite...