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Craters Grabrok,
in the extremely beautiful area surrounding Bifrost and the lava field
are 3600-4000 years old.
Mt. Baula.
No tholoid mountains are found in Iceland. This mountain is a shallow, alkaline laccolith, probably
created by a sub-glacial eruption like Mt. Hlidarfjall on Lake Myvatn
and Mts. Hagongur in the interior.
The
Snaefell's Peninsula has
relatively large alkaline areas, rhyolite and granofire intrusions. Its eruptive areas, like those in the South, are the
so-called Flank Zones. Mt.
Snaefell is a dormant, alkaline, andesite volcano.
This strato volcano erupted about 1760 and 3000 years ago.
These eruptions were highly explosive and diffusive.
Half the
mountain collapsed.
It is likely, that a few minor eruptions, which explain the
existence of the smaller craters around the volcano, took place later.
The
Lysuskard System
takes
over east of the Snaefell volcano and depicts craters and rhyolite
intrusions.
The
Berserk Lava Field
was
created almost at the same time as the Grabrok craters and lava field,
3600-4000 years ago.
The
Eldborg Crater
was
created 5000-8000 years ago in an effusive eruption.
Craters
Raudamelskulur
were
created about 2600 years ago.
Craters
Raudhals
were
created about 1100 years ago. |