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ICELAND
AND MID-OCEAN RIDGES
Edited l>y S. Björnsson,
National Energy Authority, Reykjavík, lceland
The study of mid-ocean ridges during the past de-
cade has furnished new and extremely valuable in-
formation on the earth’s crust, and provided a ra-
tional basis for revising the old hypotheses on its
structure. It has also posed a variety of new ques-
tions for geoscientists to solve. The median zone of
Iceland is a supramarine part of the world rift sys-
tem and as such more accessible for geological and
geophysical studies than its submarine parts. This
zone is therefore likely to become increasingly im-
portant in future research of mid-ocean ridges.
Consequently, lcelandic geoscientists felt that it
would be valuable to draw a geological and geo-
physical picture of Iceland in accordance with their
present knowledge and views, to reveal the most
serious gaps in this knowledge and to facilitate the
outlining of a program for future research with a
special bearing on mid-ocean ridge problems. For
this purpose the Geoscience Society of Icéland ar-
ranged a symposium on Iceland and mid-ocean rid-
ges. This book contains papers presented at the sym-
posium and approved recommendations for future
research.
FRONT COVER
Lava fountains of the Askja eiuption 1961
Photo: S. Thorarinsson