A unique ~12 ka subaerial record of rift-transform triple-junction tectonics, NE Iceland

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Rust, Derek, Whitworth, Malcolm
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Husavik; Iceland; Flatey
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609723/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31273240; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45903-8

In northern Iceland the European-North American plate boundary is broad and complex but includes a remarkable subaerial triple-junction intersection between the Husavik-Flatey Fault (HFF) dextral transform and rifting in the Northern Volcanic Zone. Fortuitously, the triple junction occurs in a sheet...