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■ SUMMARY
Amund Helland and other
GEOLOGISTS VISITING ICELAND IN
1881
Thc paper begins with a hiographical outline
of Professor Amund Helland (1846-1918), a
Norwegian geologist who was very productive
in research in a variety of fields including min-
ing, Qualernary geology, and the geography of
Norway. Helland travelled widely in Iceland
in the summer of 1881 and wrote a number of
papers on his observations there, especially on
volcanology and geomorphology. He was,
among other things, the first geologist to in-
vestigate the craters of the 1783 Lakagígar fis-
sure eruption, and the first to estimate the dis-
charge of Icelandic glacial rivers. He also pub-
lished works of the Icelanders Sveinn Pálsson
and Þorvaldur Thoroddsen in Norway.
Another geologist to visit Iceland in 1881
was James Geikie (1839-1915), soon to be-
come Professor of geology at the University of
Edinburgh. Geikie was a pioneer in studying
glacial deposits and geomorphology, and he
was a good friend of Amund Helland. Several
other foreign geoscientists came to Iceland in
the years around 1881.
PÓSTFANG HÖFUNDA/AuTHORS' ADDRESS
Leó Kristjánsson
Raunvísindast. Háskólans/Science Institute
Dunhaga 3
IS-107 REYKJAVÍK
Iceland
Kristján P. Kristjánsson
Granhaugan I,
N-7081 SJETNEMARKA,
Norway
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