Design of the subsurface observatory at Surtsey volcano, Iceland

• Published in: Scientific Drilling
• Main Authors: Türke, Andreas, Jackson, Marie D., Bach, Wolfgang, Kahl, Wolf-Achim, Grzybowski, Brian, Marshall, Beau, Gudmundsson, Magnús T., Jørgensen, Steffen Leth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Surtsey; Vestmannaeyjar; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-25-57-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00001696; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00001654/sd-25-57-2019.pdf; https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/25/57/2019/sd-25-57-2019.pdf

Surtsey, the youngest of the islands of Vestmannaeyjar, is an oceanic volcano created by explosive basaltic eruptions during 1963–1967 off the southern coast of Iceland. The subsurface deposits of the volcano were first sampled by a cored borehole in 1979. In summer 2017, three cored boreholes were...