Eiríksjökull
Sign in to saveEiríksjökull (Icelandic for "Eirík's glacier", ) is a glacier north-west of Langjökull in Iceland, with an area of reaching a height of , atop the largest table mountain in Iceland which goes by the same name.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Eiríksjökull (Tuya)
- Mountain.photo
- Eiríksjökull 2008.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Eiríksjökull
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1675
- Mountain.prominence
- > 1,000 m
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.type
- Tuya, shield volcano, composite volcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Pleistocene
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geology
- Glacier
- Etymology
- References
Eiríksjökull (Icelandic for "Eirík's glacier", ) is a glacier north-west of Langjökull in Iceland, with an area of reaching a height of , atop the largest table mountain in Iceland which goes by the same name.
== Geology == This volcano which is about three times the area of its capping glacier is in the Western volcanic zone. It rises over above its surrounds and was formed presumably by mongenetic subglacial volcanic activity. It is currently dormant or more likely extinct in terms of volcanic activity. The lowest is a hyaloclastite (móberg) tuya, capped by a thick basaltic lava shield. The volcano is also a composite volcano.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eiríksjökull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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