Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management : revisiting Þjórsárdalur, the ‘Pompeii of Iceland’.

• Main Authors: Dugmore, A. J., Church, M. J., Mairs, K-A., McGovern, T. H., Perdikaris, S., Vésteinsson, O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Wisconsin Press 2007
• Subjects: Iceland; Tephrochronology; Abandonment; Landscape change; Þjórsárdalur; Arctic; Arctic Anthropology; Hekla
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/5226/; https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.44.1.1

Geomorphological maps and nine soil profiles containing 92 tephra layers have been examined to explore the nature of medieval environmental change in Þjórsárdalur, Iceland, where farms are thought to have been abandoned after the massive tephra fall from the eruption of Hekla in 1104 A.D. We present...