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Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1988, Side 42

Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1988, Side 42
HEIMILDIR Helgi Pjeturss 1910. ísland - Handbuch der regionalen Geologie, Band 4, 1. 1- 22. Heidelberg. Helgi Torfason 1979. Investigations into the structure of South-Eastern Iceland. Óprentuð Ph. D. ritg. University of Liverpool. Englandi. 587 bls. Helgi Torfason 1985. Jarðfræðikort af ís- landi, blað 9, Suðausturland (1:250.000). Náttúrufrœðistofnun ís- lands og Landmœlingar íslands, Reykjavík. Jón Jónsson 1954. Outline of the geology of Hornafjörður region. The Hoffells- sandur, I. Geografiska Annaler 36. 146-161. Jón Jónsson 1955. Tillite in the basalt formation of East-Iceland. The Hof- fellssandur, II. Geografiska Annaler. 37. 170-175. Jón Jónson 1979. Jökulbergslagið í Græna- felli. Týli 9. 15-16. Robert, E. 1840. Mineralogie et geologie, lre. partie, Voyage en Islande et au Groenlande. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 468 bls. Walker, G.P.L. & D.H. Blake 1966. The formation of a palagonite breccia mass beneath a valley glacier in Iceland. Qu- art. Journ. Geol. Soc. London 122. 45-61. Þorvaldur Thoroddsen 1914. Ferð um Austur-Skaftfellssýslu og Múlasýslur 1894. í Ferðabók III. Hið íslenska frœðafélag, Kaupmannahöfn. 360 bls. SUMMARY On the Geology of Hestgerðismúli by Jón Jónsson National Energy Authority, Grensásvegur 9, 108 Reykjavík, Iceland The paper briefly describes a volcanic breccia, earlier mentioned by G.P.L. Walker & D.H. Blake (1966), who con- sidered it as valley filling, superimposed on the Tertiary flood basalt formation at Hestgerðismúli in S.E. Iceland. For the formation the author provision- ally uses the name Múli Formation. It consists of volcanic breccia with a great deal of columnar jointed basalt, pillow la- va, palagonite tuff and breccia, partly su- perimposed on tillite and varved fine- grained sediment, partly intercalated in the rock. The formation, which might be of early Pleistocene age, has a thickness of approximately 100 m and is thought to have been formed subglacially. The ques- tion as to whether this formation was formed on the spot or as a lava flow from an unknown volcano is as yet unresolved. 96

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