Torfajökull

Torfajökull (Icelandic for "Torfi's glacier"; ) is a rhyolitic stratovolcano, with a large caldera (central volcano) capped by a glacier of the same name and associated with a complex of subglacial volcanoes. Torfajökull last erupted in 1477 and consists of the largest area of silicic extrusive rocks in Iceland. This is now known to be due to a VEI 5 eruption 55,000 years ago.

Key facts

Mountain.name: Torfajökull
Mountain.photo: File:Landmannalaugar 1 Iceland zoom.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption: Torfajökull
Mountain.elevation_m: 1,281
Mountain.map: Iceland
Mountain.map_size: 200
Mountain.label_position: right
Mountain.location: Iceland
Mountain.type: Stratovolcano
Mountain.age: Pleistocene
Mountain.last_eruption: March 1477
Mountain.mapframe: no
Mountain.map_caption: Geological features near the Torfajökull volcanic system (red outlines) - In particular note that the Bárðarbunga volcanic system is also emphasised as the last two Torfajökull rhyolites (877 and 1477 CE) were erupted simultaneous with Veidivötn (Bárðarbunga) basalts (Light violet shading).
Glacier.name: Torfajökull
Glacier.type: Glacier
Glacier.location: Iceland
Glacier.area: .
Glacier.status: Retreating

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Elevation: 1190
Image: Landmannalaugar 1 Iceland zoom.jpg

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Commons category: Torfajökull
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Seismic Activity
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== Geography == The volcano is located north of Mýrdalsjökull and south of Þórisvatn Lake, Iceland. To its south-west is the volcano and glacier of Tindfjallajökull and almost directly to its west is the volcano of Hekla. Adjacent to the southern edge of its glacier of Torfajökull it has a peak of but the south-eastern caldera margin also extends to the glacier of Kaldaklofsjökull which is on the western slopes of a peak called Háskerðingur that is high. Laufafell dome at is at the north-western edge of the Torfajökull volcanic system and almost halfway between Hekla and the glacier of Torfajökull.