Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Keflavik to Reykjavik

2017; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-55152-4_2

2364-6497

Ágúst Guðmundsson,

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

The road we drive from theKeflavik (Keflavík) Keflavik (Keflavík) Airport to Reykjavik (Reykjavík) Reykjavik (Reykjavík) is shown in Fig. 2.1. The airport is located on aBasaltic basaltic lava flowLava flow . More specifically, the airport is situated on a smooth lava flow of the type referred to as pahoehoe lavaPahoehoe lava . Basalt means that the molten rockMolten rock (magma) , the magma Magma (molten rock) , which generated the lava was very hot, about 1300 °C, and of comparatively low viscosityViscosity , that is, it flowed easily. When flowing on the surface, the lava itself had probably a temperature of around 1200 °C. The lava hosting the airport, however, lies outside the main active volcanic areas of Iceland (Fig. 2.1).