[PDF][PDF] Plate boundaries, rifts and transforms in Iceland

P Einarsson - 2008 - admin.rais.is
The Iceland hotspot has a pronounced effect on the appearance and structure of the plate
boundary between the North America and Eurasia Plates that crosses the island. The thick …

[图书][B] Iceland geodynamics: crustal deformation and divergent plate tectonics

F Sigmundsson - 2006 - books.google.com
This book provides a summary of geodynamic results from Iceland that presently are found
in a great number of scientific articles, but have not been collected before in a book. The …

Glacial rebound and plate spreading: results from the first countrywide GPS observations in Iceland

T Árnadóttir, B Lund, W Jiang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Iceland is one of the few places on Earth where a divergent plate boundary can be observed
on land. Direct observations of crustal deformation for the whole country are available for the …

Fault slip distribution of two June 2000 MW6. 5 earthquakes in South Iceland estimated from joint inversion of InSAR and GPS measurements

R Pedersen, S Jónsson, T Árnadóttir… - Earth and Planetary …, 2003 - Elsevier
We present the first detailed estimates of co-seismic slip distribution on faults in the South
Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ), an area of bookshelf tectonics. We have estimated source …

The 2008 May 29 earthquake doublet in SW Iceland

J Decriem, T Árnadóttir, A Hooper… - Geophysical Journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
On 2008 May 29 an earthquake doublet shook the southwestern part of Iceland. The first
main shock originated beneath Mt Ingólfsfjall, located near the western margin of the South …

Structural architecture of a highly oblique divergent plate boundary segment

AE Clifton, SA Kattenhorn - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
The Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland is a highly oblique spreading segment of the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge oriented about 30° from the direction of absolute plate motion. We …

Tectonic framework and fault structures in the Fagradalsfjall segment of the Reykjanes Peninsula Oblique Rift, Iceland

P Einarsson, V Eyjólfsson, ÁR Hjartardóttir - Bulletin of Volcanology, 2023 - Springer
The two volcanic eruptions of 2021 and 2022 at Fagradalsfjall in SW Iceland occurred within
the Reykjanes Peninsula Oblique Rift, a segment of the complex boundary in Iceland …

A new 3-D finite-fault model of the Southwest Iceland bookshelf transform zone

F Bayat, M Kowsari, B Halldorsson - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The largest earthquakes in Iceland occur in the South Iceland seismic zone (SISZ) and the
Tjörnes fracture zone in the northeast. With the latter being primarily offshore, the seismic …

Current plate movements across the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge determined from 5 years of continuous GPS measurements in Iceland

H Geirsson, T Árnadóttir, C Völksen… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze data spanning up to 5 years from 18 continuous GPS stations in Iceland,
computing daily positions of the stations with three different high‐level geodetic processing …

The structure of seismogenic strike-slip faults in the eastern part of the Reykjanes Peninsula Oblique Rift, SW Iceland

P Einarsson, ÁR Hjartardóttir, S Hreinsdóttir… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2020 - Elsevier
A considerable part of the seismic risk to the capital area of Iceland is provided by a series of
strike-slip faults at the mid-Atlantic plate boundary within a distance range of 15–35 km …