Seyðishólar

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Seyðishólar
height 214  m
location Iceland
Coordinates 64 ° 4 '0 "  N , 20 ° 51' 0"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 4 '0 "  N , 20 ° 51' 0"  W.
Seyðishólar (Iceland)
Seyðishólar
Type Crevasse volcano
Age of the rock approx. 5,000–6,000 years

The Seyðishólar is a group of craters north of Kerið in the Grímsnes district in southern Iceland .

Iceland's youngest volcanic system

The cinder cones are 5000–6000 years old. The highest crater is the twin crater Seyðishóll (214 m). Its rock is very ferrous, which u. a. recognizes in the gravel pit, which is used to extract building material. There is a mobile phone and TV transmitter on the southern Zwillingsberg.

The craters lie over a small magma chamber of their own . This is the Grímsnes volcanic system , the youngest active volcanic system in Iceland. a. Kerið crater belongs to the same as the hot springs at the foot of Búrfell í Grímsnesi . It does not yet have its own central volcano.

The largest lava field in the area, the so-called Grímsneshraun , was produced by them.

Summer houses

There are large colonies of summer houses near the craters.

literature

  • KV Ragnarsdóttir, FC Bishop, SP Jakobsson: Crystallization processes in a shallow magma chamber beneath Seydishólar, Grímsnes, Iceland. Abstracts. IAVCEI-IAGC Scientific Assembly, No. 24, 15.-22. August 1982. Reykjavík.

See also

Web links

Commons : Seyðishólar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Íslandshandbókin , 1st bindi. Reykjavík, Örn and Örlygur. 1989, bls. 821