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SUMMARY
Ebenezer Henderson and
the Sudurland Seismic Zone
by
Páll Imsland
Nordic Volcanological Institute
University of Iceland
IS-101 REYKJAVIK
Iceland
Ebenezer Henderson was an English
priest who travelled through Iceland in
the years 1814-15 selling the Bible to the
Icelanders. At that time no geological
map had been made of Iceland, no geo-
logist was living in the country, and in
general very little was known about its
geological features. This article recalls a
170 year old statement of Mr.Henderson
about a connection between the volcanic
fields in the western and eastern parts of
southern Iceland through an earthquake
zone which has caused death and destruc-
tion for a long time at about 100 year in-
tervals. Today geologists interprete this in
accordance with plate tectonics theory as
a fracture zone where the rift zone of the
Reykjanes peninsula is offset in relation to
the rift zone in southern Central Iceland.
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