Volcanic systems are swarms of tectonic fractures and basalt volcanoes formed as a result of
plate-pull (as the plates are pulled apart) associated with the mid-ocean ridges and the …

Since the similarity in size distribution of earthquakes and acoustic emissions (AE) was
found in the 1960s, many laboratory studies have been motivated by the need to provide …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

We report progress made in the last few years on the general problem of the mechanism of
fault growth and the scaling laws that result. Results are now conclusive that fault growth is a …

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 …

The 170 km South Iceland Seismic Tomography (SIST) profile extends from the west and
across the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge spreading center in the Western Volcanic Zone and continues …

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 …

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 …

Field and photogeological studies were made of 90 zones of interacting fracture segments
along the rift zone of Iceland. Each zone consists of a pair of extension fractures or a pair of …

Crustal deformation in the plate boundary regions in south Iceland is estimated from
repeated Global Positioning System (GPS) geodetic measurements in the period 1986 …