Stress and strain of a plate boundary - the Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland

• Main Author: Keiding, Marie
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Jarðeðlisfræði; Reykjanesskagi; Jarðskorpuhreyfingar; Suðvesturland; Jarðskjálftar; GPS-mælingar; Doktorsritgerðir; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/4034

The Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland offers excellent opportunities to study the dynamics of an obliquely divergent plate boundary zone. Both leftlateral shear and extension are accommodated on the peninsula, resulting in a plate boundary zone characterised by high earthquake activity as wel...