The Skerin ridge on Eyjafjallajökull, south Iceland: Morphology and magma-ice interaction in an ice-confined silicic fissure eruption

• Main Author: Birgir Vilhelm Óskarsson 1982-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Jarðfræði; Kortagerð; Bergfræði; Jarðefnafræði; Eyjafjallajökull; Íssjármælingar; Skerin; glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/4375

Skerin ridge is a 4.5 km long and on average 100 m wide ridge, situated on a radial fissure trending NW from the summit caldera of the ice-capped central volcano Eyjafjallajökull, south Iceland. Results from previous studies on tephrochronological dating of deposits produced by jokulhlaups originati...