Hrómundartindur
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Hrómundartindur () is a mountain in Iceland north of Hveragerði with an elevation of . It to the east of Hengill and is the central volcano of an adjacent long Hrómundartindur volcanic system, which contains the Ölkeduháls geothermal field. Like Hengill this area is close to the south-eastern triple junction of the Hreppar microplate, is seismically active, and associated with the Western volcanic zone and the South Iceland seismic zone. To the north-east are multiple tindars, and there is a Holocene lava flow called Tjarnahnúkshraun which covers with a volume of . The lava ranges from picrite
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Hrómundartindur
- Mountain.type
- central volcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 3500 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcano
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur
- Elevation
- 561
- Image
- Hengill behind Hveragerdi.jpg
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- Hrómundartindur
- described at URL
- icelandicvolcanoes.is//?volcano=HRO
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hrómundartindur () is a mountain in Iceland north of Hveragerði with an elevation of . It to the east of Hengill and is the central volcano of an adjacent long Hrómundartindur volcanic system, which contains the Ölkeduháls geothermal field. Like Hengill this area is close to the south-eastern triple junction of the Hreppar microplate, is seismically active, and associated with the Western volcanic zone and the South Iceland seismic zone. To the north-east are multiple tindars, and there is a Holocene lava flow called Tjarnahnúkshraun which covers with a volume of . The lava ranges from picrite basalt, being predominantly tholeiite basalt with some basaltic andesite.
== Activity ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hrómundartindur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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