Aspects of the glacial geomorphology of the Vestfirdir Peninsula of northwest Iceland with particular reference to the Vestur-Isafjarsarsysla area
The evolution of the landscape of Vestfir6ir, made almost entirely of volcanic rocks, is traced from the lilocene, when the oldest rocks formed, through the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Volcanic activity ceased first in the north western part leaving a basalt plateau with occasional large volcanoes pro...
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1983
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| Online Access: | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7787/ http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7787/1/7787_4784.PDF |