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Название: Iceland Within the Northern Atlantic, Volume 2

Автор: Группа авторов

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: География

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isbn: 9781119850878

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СКАЧАТЬ West Volcanic Zone

      Preface

       Brigitte VAN VLIET-LANOË and Françoise BERGERAT

      This collective work is the logical conclusion of more than 30 years of French research in Iceland, with the support of various programs and institutions. It has also benefitted from the contribution of a CNRS Thematic School on Iceland, which was held in Brest in 2010 and which was strongly impacted by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. This book is the fruit of the work of a group of complementary researchers who are very fond of Iceland. Our thoughts turn to Jacques Angelier who left this basaltic ship a little too early. There are multiple authors to each chapter – with a principal author for each one – in order to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the discussed scientific problems and take into account all our publications up to the most recent ones (2019–2020).

      French research in Iceland began in the mid-1980s, initiated by Françoise Bergerat (Sorbonne Université, formerly Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris) in search of an “emerging oceanic ridge”, in collaboration with Jacques Angelier†, then Catherine Homberg. Very quickly, this collaboration was extended to Icelandic colleagues, Águst Guðmundsson (London), Kristjan Sæmundsson, Ragnar Stefánsson and Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson†. The first work focused on the analysis of brittle deformations and then turned to sismotectonics.

      The material and logistical support of the Icelandic authorities proved to be very constructive both for field work and for data acquisition and sharing: IMO (Veðurstofa Íslands/Icelandic Meteorological Office); ISOR (Íslenskar orkurannsóknir/Icelandic energy research), formerly Orkustofnun (National Energy Authority); Landsvirkjun (National Power Company) and Vatnajökull National Park. This research would not have been as fruitful without the physical and intellectual help of all our students, at Master’s level and/or with their thesis works: Olivier Bourgeois, Magalie Bellou, Jean-Christophe Embry, Loïc Fourel, Sebastian Garcia, Guillaume Gosselin, Solène Guégan, Romain Plateaux, Lionel Sonnette, Anne Sophie Van Cauwenberge, Ségolène Verrier and Audrey Wayolle.

      We also thank Bernadette Coleno, Marion Jaud, Laurent Gernigon and Alexandre Lethiers for their contributions to the figures in this volume.

      March 2021

      Introduction

       Brigitte VAN VLIET-LANOË and René MAURY

      The Papar discovered a world of fire and ice, the gates of hell. They settled in round peat-covered huts and dug shovel caves in the consolidated sandy interglacial formations in the south of the island.

Photos depict (A) The Þingvellir graben, seen from an airplane. The Alþing site is located in front of the white buildings. (B) Reconstruction 
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