Búrfell (Grímsnes og Grafningur)
Búrfell (Grímsnes og Grafningur) | ||
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The Búrfell from the west, in the foreground the Úlfljótsvatn |
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height | 536 m | |
location | Iceland | |
Coordinates | 64 ° 5 ′ 46 ″ N , 20 ° 56 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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Type | Palagonite back | |
rock | Palagonite | |
Age of the rock | Saale ice age | |
Normal way | from the west |
The Búrfell (í Grímsnesi) is a 534 m high extinct volcano from the Ice Age in the municipality of Grímsnes og Grafningur in southern Iceland .
Location and characteristics
The mountain is about 4 km east of the Úlfljótsvatn and about 6 km southeast of the Þingvallavatn .
The mountain was formed in a glacial period towards the end of the penultimate ice age ( Saale glacial period ) and is around 120,000 years old.
There is disagreement regarding the type of volcanic mountain. In the Vísindavefurinn of the University of Iceland it is referred to as a palagonite mountain , Ari Trausti refers to it as a table volcano .
There is a small lake on the summit plateau of the mountain.
Surname
The name Búrfell means pantry mountain in German . Since there are numerous mountains with this name in Iceland, they are differentiated by nicknames.
hike
A hiking trail up the mountain begins southeast of the Ljósafossvirkjun power station on the Sog River .
farm
At the foot of the mountain is u. a. a farm of the same name.
Lt. Conquest book lived there at the beginning of the colonization of Iceland, a man named Grímur, the eponymous district Grímsnes to the lake all today Svínavatn took into his possession.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=1793 accessed: October 12, 2010
- ↑ "hefðbundið móbergsfjall", in: http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=1793 accessed: October 12, 2010 ibid.
- ↑ isl. "móbergstapi", in: Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorsteinsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 40
- ↑ a b Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorsteinsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 40 f.
- ↑ Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. 2. bindi. Edited by T. Einarsson, H. Magnússon, 1989, p. 784