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Jökull - 01.06.2000, Qupperneq 31

Jökull - 01.06.2000, Qupperneq 31
Helgi Björnsson et al. H olt V ík H atta Ey ja fja lla jöku ll T ind fja lla jöku ll Torfa jöku ll M a rkarfljó t Innr i -Em struá F rem ri - Em struá K rossá B lá fja lla kv ís l B r en n iv ín sk vís l H ól m sá Jök u lkv ís l Le irá S ká lm K úð a- fljó t M úlakv ís l K lif a n d i Jö k u ls á 40 0 800 1200 8 0 0 1200 Mýrdalsjökull N 0 5 10 km 20° W 64° N 66° N 15° W Ice land M ýrda lssandur S ó lhe im a- sandur F im m vörðu- há ls Figure 1. Location map of Mýrdalsjökull and surroundings; outwash plains and glacial rivers. Insert map of Iceland showing the location of the neo-volcanic zone. – Mýrdalsjökull og nágrenni, jökulsandar, jökulár og lega gosbeltisins á Íslandi. 1993, 2000), producing 30-35 km  of tephra, erupted subglacially, mainly from the caldera (Þórarinsson, 1975), and 15 km  of lava, largely originating from the fissure swarm (Jakobsson, 1979). The central volcano is one of the most seismically active in Iceland. The epicenters are bimodal; one seismic zone lies within the caldera but the other bene- ath its western rim at Goðabunga (Einarsson, 1977, 1983, 1991; Einarsson and Björnsson, 1987; Einars- son and Brandsdóttir, 2000). Since the settlement of Iceland (870 A.D.), twenty volcanic eruptions, on average two per century, have been traced to the Mýrdalsjökull volcanic system. Eruptions under the ice cap rapidly melt large volu- mes of ice, triggering enormous jökulhlaups from the glacier margins, frequently breaking off large blocks of ice (Pálsson 1883, 1945; Eyþórsson, 1945; Þór- arinsson 1957, 1967, 1975; Rist, 1967a; Einarsson et al., 1980; Larsen, 1993, 2000; Tómasson, 1996). The jökulhlaups have threatened human population, damaged vegetation, disrupted roads on the allu- vial plains surrounding the ice cap and even genera- 30 JÖKULL No. 49
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