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Jökull - 01.12.1984, Side 97

Jökull - 01.12.1984, Side 97
In northwestern Iceland, normal faults are more common and tend to have larger throws than in eastern Iceland. The number of dykes with a significant associated vertical displacement is, however, similar. While the total length of profiles in northwestern and eastern Iceland is roughly similar, only 19 normal faults were observed in eastern Iceland, compared with 68 normal faults observed in northwestern Iceland. Also, the throw of faults in eastern Iceland is 0.5—8.0 m with an average of 2.7 m, whereas the throw of the faults in northwestern Iceland is 0.5—25.0 m with an average of 5.3 m. Neither the average thickness nor the thickness distribution of the dykes in northwestern Iceland can be related to the altitude of the profiles (Table 1, Fig. 9), nor to the location of the profiles in the research areas (Fig. 2). I suggest that the variation in average thickness and thick- ness distribution may be explained by the diffe- rent lithology of the country rock. Difference in lithology may be reflected in difference in various mechanical factors, the most important of which is Youngs’s modulus, E. Dykes dissecting layers of high E tend to be thin, but tend to be thick when dissecting layers of low E. Thus the average thickness of dykes dissecting layers of high E can be much less than the average thickness of these same dykes where they dissect layers of low E (Gudmundsson 1984). Layers of high or low E may be expected to be randomly distributed throughout the lava pile, thereby explaining the lack of correlation between thickness of dykes and the altitude or location of the corresponding dyke profiles. In general, the dyke orientation obtained by field measurements in the present study is similar to the orientation that Sigurdsson (1967) obtained from air photographs of the same part of northwestern Iceland. The small difference between the results can be explained by the diffe- rent method used and by the different areas used to make the rose diagrams. Both these factors result in somewhat different “samples“ being used in Sigurdsson’s study as compared with the present study. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank NevilleJ. Price and Kristján Saemunds- son for critical comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Financial support was provided by the National Energy Authority and by the Ice- landic Science Foundation. REFERENCES Björnsson, A., G. Johnsen, S. Sigurdsson, G. Thorbergsson and E. Tryggvason 1979: Rifting of the plate boundary in north Iceland 1975— 1978. J. Geophys. Res. 84: 3029-3038. Bullen, K. E. 1963: An Introduction to the Theory of Seismology. C. U. P., Cambridge, 381 pp. Friedrich, W. 1966: Zur Geologie von Brjáns- laekur (NW-Island) unter besonderer Beriick- sichtigung der fossilen Flora. Geol. Inst. d. Univ. Koln, Sonderveröffentlichungen 10: 108 pp. Gudmundsson, A. 1983a: Form and dimensions of dykes in eastern Iceland. Tectonophysics 95: 295-307. Gudmundsson A. 1983b: Stress estimates from the length/width ratios of fractures. J. Struct. Geol. 5: 623-626. Gudmundsson, A. 1984: A Study of Dykes, Fis- sures and Faults in Selected Areas of Iceland. Unpubl. Ph. D. thesis, Univ. of London. Haimson, B. C. and Rummel, F. 1982: Hydrofrac- turing stress measurements in the Iceland re- search drilling project drill hole at Reydar- fjördur, Iceland. J. Geophys. Res. 87: 6631-6649. Jaeger, J. C. 1961: The cooling of irregularly shaped igneous bodies. Am. J. Sci. 259: 721 — 734. Jaeger, J. C. 1968: Cooling and solidification of igneous rocks. In: H. H. Hess (Ed.). Basalts. Vol. 2, Interscience (Wiley), New York, pp. 503-536. Jeffreys, H. 1976: The Earth. C. U. P., Cam- bridge, 574 pp. Kristjánsson, L., R. Patzold and J. Preston 1975: The paleomagnetism and geology of the Pat- reksfjördur-Arnarfjördur region of northwest Iceland. Tectonophysics 25: 201—216. McDougall, /., L. Kristjánsson and K. Saemundsson 1984: Magnetostratigraphy and geochronology of northwest Iceland. J. Geo- phys. Res. (in press). Price, N. J. 1966: Fault and Joint Development in Brittle and Semibrittle Rock. Pergamon, Oxford, 176 pp. JÖKULL 34. ÁR 95
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