Edited by
Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë, University of Western Brittany, France
ISBN : 9781789450156
Publication Date : September 2021
Hardcover 264 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
The volcanic island of Iceland is a unique geological place due both to its position in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and its repeated glaciations. It has been an accurate recorder of geodynamic and regional climatic evolutions for at least the last 15 million years.
This book studies the Quaternary magmatism associated with the deep Iceland hotspot and, in particular, its distinctive geochemical and volcanological characteristics. It also analyzes that Arctic glacierization as it relates to the opening of the North Atlantic and the appearance of today’s ocean currents. We will also investigate the Quaternary glaciation as it affected Iceland in its oceanic context, particularly on the basis of radiometric dating, looking at the formation of the Greenland and Scandinavian ice sheets and data from marine sediment. Finally, it explores the specific environmental features of the island, from the end of the last ice age to global warming today.
This book brings together the internal and external geodynamics of our planet to understand how Iceland functions and its role as a recorder of the paleoclimatic evolution of the Northern Hemisphere.
1. Young Icelandic Volcanism and its Implications, René Maury and Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë.
2. Volcanism and Glaciations: Forcings and Chronometers, Hervé Guillou, René Maury and Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë.
3. Cenozoic Evolution of Iceland and the Cryosphere, Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë and Hervé Guillou.
Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë is Emeritus Research Director at CNRS and is part of the Ocean Geosciences Laboratory at the University of Western Brittany, France. A surface geologist, she is a specialist in stratigraphy and the sedimentary formations of cold continental environments and their deformation by paleoseismicity.
