Vatnafjöll
Sign in to saveVatnafjöll () is a long, wide basaltic fissure vent system that is south-east of Hekla, Iceland. It includes from the north towards the south the hills of Innri-Vatnafjöll at high, Fremri-Vatnafjöll at and Vatnafjallarani at as the main Vatnafjöll edifice, at a distance of about from Hekla. It is part of the same system as Hekla, and the term Hekla-Vatnafjöll volcanic system has been used to describe it. More than two dozen eruptions have occurred at Vatnafjöll during the Holocene Epoch. Vatnafjöll has not erupted during the last 1100 years. While these eruptions were predominantly effusi
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Active volcanoes, Earthquakes in Iceland and East Volcanic Zone of Iceland.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Vatnafjöll
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1235
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
- Mountain.type
- Fissure vents of Hekla
- Mountain.age
- Tephrochronology
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1200 years ago
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- Instance of
- mountain range
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Rangárþing ytra
- Elevation
- 1235
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Vatnafjöll () is a long, wide basaltic fissure vent system that is south-east of Hekla, Iceland. It includes from the north towards the south the hills of Innri-Vatnafjöll at high, Fremri-Vatnafjöll at and Vatnafjallarani at as the main Vatnafjöll edifice, at a distance of about from Hekla. It is part of the same system as Hekla, and the term Hekla-Vatnafjöll volcanic system has been used to describe it. More than two dozen eruptions have occurred at Vatnafjöll during the Holocene Epoch. Vatnafjöll has not erupted during the last 1100 years. While these eruptions were predominantly effusive some basaltic tephra deposits have been found up to away.
A with an epicenter near the main Vatnafjöll edifice occurred on 25th May, 1987, where the transform South Iceland seismic zone meets the East volcanic zone of Iceland. Later analysis has suggested that initiation was from strain relief but a subsurface dyke intrusion then occurred over the next 3 days.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vatnafjöll” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations