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Instructions Magma Formation Lava Flow Behavior (1) Observing Submarine Lava (2) Observing Subaerial Lava (3) 'A'ā and Pahoehoe (4) Iceland Laki Fissure 1783 Fieldwork (5) Advancing Lava Flows (6) Local Impacts (7) Global Impacts Laki Sulfur Content (8) Sulfur Discharge (9) Climate Hypothesis (10)
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Laki Volcanic Field and Vicinity
South Central Iceland
Relief
Map showing the general geography of the Laki field site.
Check the boxes next to the features listed in the legend below to identify them.
Map Legend
Barren Uplands
Glaciers
Road
Sandur
Vegetated lowlands
Water bodies
Laki lava flows
Topography
Countour map showing elevation in intervals of 200 m.
Scroll over the elevations listed in the legend to display the value of each contour line.
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Mean Sea Level
Bedrock Geology
Map showing major rock and sediment types. Adapted from Geologic Map of Iceland - 1:500,000 - Bedrock Geology (Haukur Johannesson and Kristjan Saemundsson).
Scroll over the element on the map legend to highlight those features and acquire additional information about them.
Map Legend
Mafic and intermediate bedrock
Holocene lava flows
Holocene sediment
Glacier
Water
Laki Volcanic Field
A relief map showing the total extent of the Laki volcanic field (in red). The darker red in the upper portion of the lava flow shows the location and extent of the Laki fissures that produced the flows.
Adapted from the Touring Map of Iceland 1:600,000 (Malog menning 1999) and Thordarsen S. and Self. S. (1993).
Click on one of the green rectangles on your right to enlarge one of those areas and measure the advance of the lava flows during the 1783 eription.
Return to the relief map to identify major geographic features or the geologic map to access more information about the lava flow.
Map Directory
Relief
Topography
Geology
Laki volcanic field (Task 6)
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