| Skjaldbreiður | |
|---|---|
 Skjaldbreiður as seen from Þingvellir | |
| Elevation | 1,060 m |
| Location |  Iceland |
| Coordinates | |
| Type | shield volcano |
| Age of rock | 9,000 years |
| Translation | broad shield (Icelandic) |
Skjaldbreiður, meaning the broad shield in Icelandic, is an Icelandic mountain from whose name the term "shield volcano" derives. In topography a summit is a point on a surface which is higher in Elevation than all points immediately adjacent to The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Mountains can be characterized in several ways Some mountains are Volcanoes and can be characterized by the type of lava and eruptive history A shield volcano is a large Volcano with shallow-sloping sides The geologic time scale is a chronologic schema (or idealized Model) relating Stratigraphy to time that is used by Geologists and other Icelandic ( is a North Germanic language, the language of Iceland. Icelandic ( is a North Germanic language, the language of Iceland. Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( A shield volcano is a large Volcano with shallow-sloping sides It was formed in a huge and protracted eruption roughly 9,000 years ago. The extensive lava fields which were produced by this eruption, flowed southwards, and formed the basin of Þingvallavatn, Iceland's largest lake, and Þingvellir, the "Parliament Plains" where the Icelandic national assembly, the Alþing was founded in the year 930. A lava plain, or lava field, is a large expanse of nearly flat-lying Lava flows Þingvallavatn is a Lake in the south-west of Iceland. With a surface of 84 km² it is the largest (natural lake of the island is '''''Þingvellir''''' ( Þing: 'parliament' is ''vellir'' 'meadows'(sometimes transliterated Thingvellir) is a place in Bláskógarbyggð in southwestern The Alþingi, Anglicized variously as Althing or Althingi, is the national Parliament —literally “(the all- thing ”—of Events By Place Europe With the establishment of the Althing, now the world's oldest Parliament, the Icelandic Commonwealth
The volcano culminates at 1,060 metres, and its crater measures roughly 300 metres in diameter. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International
Straddling the Mid-Atlantic ridge, the lava fields from Skjaldbreiður have been torn and twisted over the millennia, forming a multitude of fissures and rifts inside the Þingvellir National Park, the best known of which are Almannagjá, Hrafnagjá and Flosagjá. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR is a Mid-ocean ridge, a Divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. is '''''Þingvellir''''' ( Þing: 'parliament' is ''vellir'' 'meadows'(sometimes transliterated Thingvellir) is a place in Bláskógarbyggð in southwestern
References
- Scarth, Alwyn; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001). Volcanoes of Europe. Oxford University Press, 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-521754-3.
- Thordarson, Thor; Hoskuldsson, Armann (2002). Iceland (Classic Geology in Europe 3). Terra Publishing, 208 pp. ISBN 1-903544-06-8.
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