The very largest glacier outburst floods have been termed 'megafloods' given their volume
and peak discharge. That definition might be revised because those floods have become …

Jökulhlaups (glacial outburst floods) are frequent in glaciated terrain. Jökulhlaups exhibiting
a sudden rise to peak discharge have not been subject to detailed investigation. A …

The massive worldwide deglaciation leads to more frequent slope instabilities in
mountainous terrains. The physical processes leading to such destabilizations are poorly …

We investigate how surface load variations around volcanoes act on shallow magma
chambers. Numerical calculations are carried out in axisymmetric geometry for an elliptical …

Since the end of 1993, the digital, automatic seismic system, known as the SIL-system, has
acted as the national seismic network in Iceland. The number of stations in the network has …

In order to assist the elaboration of proactive measures for the management of future
volcanic eruptions in Iceland, we developed a new scenario-based approach to assess the …

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland produced mildly alkaline basalt that was
emitted during the initial flank eruptive phase, whereas tephra predominately of benmorite …

The Katla volcano is covered by the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap and is currently one of the most
active volcanoes in Iceland. It has erupted twenty times the past 1,100 years. The …

Iceland lies astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was created by seafloor spreading that began
about 55 Ma. The crust is anomalously thick (∼ 20–40 km), indicating higher melt …

Quantitative thermomechanical models of mid-ocean ridge magmatic systems focus on
spreading rate variations as the principal control on crustal thermal structure and the …