Hengill (Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Hengill volcano system, Iceland
| Volcano: | Hengill (see Hengill at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | The Hengill volcanic system is located in the eastern part of the Reykjanes peninsula at an unstable ridge– ridge–transform triple junction where the Reykjanes Volcanic Zone, the West Volcanic Zone, and the South Iceland Seismic Zone converge. The area is a high-temperature geothermal area, and the heat causes alteration in the rock giving us a variety of colors. At the hengill geothermal area you find boiling mud pots and steam rising out from the ground. |
Point of contact for this site:
Pedro Hernández, phdez@iter.es (Environmental Research Division, ITER)
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Hengill_01082006 | 1/8/2006 | Emanuela Bagnato | Sept. 21, 2016 |
Bibliographic references for this site
Hernández Pedro A. ,Nemesio M. Pérez,Thráinn Fridriksson & Jolie Egbert & Evgenia Ilyinskaya,Andri Thárhallsson & Gretar Ívarsson & Gestur Gíslason,Ingvi Gunnarsson & Birgir Jónsson & Eleazar Padrón, Gladys Melián, Toshiya Mori,Kenji Notsu, 2012,Diffuse volcanic degassing and thermal energy release From Hengill volcanic system, Iceland, Bulletin of Volcanology, vol.74, pp. 2435–2448, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-012-0673-2
