Búrfell (Grímsnes og Grafningur)

Búrfell (Grímsnes og Grafningur)
	The Búrfell from the west, in the foreground the Úlfljótsvatn
height	536 m
location	Iceland
Coordinates	64 ° 5 ′ 46 ″ N , 20 ° 56 ′ 17 ″ W Coordinates: 64 ° 5 ′ 46 ″ N , 20 ° 56 ′ 17 ″ W
Type	Palagonite back
rock	Palagonite
Age of the rock	Saale ice age
Normal way	from the west

South of the Búrfell (Grímsnes), left in the background Búrfell (Þingvellir) and Botnssúlur

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.

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

[1] ttp://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=1793 accessed: October 12, 2010

[2] "hefðbundið móbergsfjall", in: http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=1793 accessed: October 12, 2010 ibid.

[3] sl. "móbergstapi", in: Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorsteinsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 40

[Ari_Trausti-4] Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorsteinsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 40 f.

[5] Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. 2. bindi. Edited by T. Einarsson, H. Magnússon, 1989, p. 784