The Surtsey Magma Series

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Ian Schipper, C., Jakobsson, Sveinn P., White, James D.L., Michael Palin, J., Bush-Marcinowski, Tim
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
• Subjects: Article; Surtsey; Vestmannaeyjar; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481646/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26112644; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11498

The volcanic island of Surtsey (Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland) is the product of a 3.5-year-long eruption that began in November 1963. Observations of magma-water interaction during pyroclastic episodes made Surtsey the type example of shallow-to-emergent phreatomagmatic eruptions. Here, in part to mark t...