August 7 - 18
Day 1: Keflavik/Blue Lagoon/camp at Seljavellir
Day 2: Solheimajokull-southern outlet of Myrdalsjokull/Skogafoss
Ice tunnel with a small stream emerging from it at the margin of Solheimajokull.
A larger ice tunnel with an emerging subglacial stream at the margin
of Solheimajokull.
Erratic at the margin of Solheimajokull in 1997.
Same erratic in 2000.
Southern margin of Solheimajokull in 1997.
Southern margin of Solheimajokull in 2000.
Day 3: Gigajokull-northern outlet of Eyjafjallajokull
A small cave beneath Gigajokull with a through-flowing subglacial stream.
Dawn Chapel tries to drive up Gigajokull to the accumulation zone -
quite unsuccessfully.
Then she tried to dig the car out with her ice axe. Again, unsuccessfully.
Clearly, the "superbus" is the preferred means of transportation on
glaciated terrane!
Day 4: Dyrholoey, town of Vik, and Skaftafell National
Park
Puffin at Dyrholoey.
Southern coast of Iceland at Dyrholoey.
Fluvial/eolian sediments neatly exposed near Dyrholoey.
Day 5: Skeidararsandar and Skeidararjokull
Steve at Skeidararsandar near the southern margin of Skeidararjokull.
Kettle in Skeidararsandar.
Day 6-8: Breidamerkurjokull, Fjallsjokull, and Flaajokull
Jesse Varsho peers down a moulin in
Breidamerkurjokull.
Southern margin of Breidamerkurjokull.
Lagoon at a calving margin of Breidamerkurjokull.
Group in front of the same lagoon.
Push moraine emerging from a proglacial lake at the southern margin
of Flaajokull.
"Frazzle ice" in a stream emerging from beneath Fjellsjokull.
Day 9: Botnjokull and valleys on the north side
of Myrdalsjokull, Homarfoss
Glaciolacustrine sediments on the north side of Myrdalsjokull.
Homarfoss: falls in columnar basalt.
Day 10: Geothermal springs and Mt. Hekla
Geothermal springs near Mt. Hekla.
Cross-section of columnar basalt near Mt. Hekla.
Day 11: Gullfoss, Geysir, Dingvallir, and Reykjavik
Geysir!
Day 12: Reykjavik
We split up on the last day to do our own versions of sight-seeing in the city.
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