Iceland Within the Northern Atlantic, Volume 1. Группа авторов

Ridge GIR Greenland–Iceland Ridge GL Grimsey Line GPS Global Positioning System

      H

HFF	Húsavík-Flatey Fault
HIMU	High Mu mantle (Mu = U/Pb)

      I

ICPMS	Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
IFR	Iceland–Faroe Ridge
IGS	International GPS Service
IMO	Icelandic Meteorological Office (Veðurstofa Íslands)
InSAR	Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
IRD	Ice-rafted detritus
ISOW	Iceland–Scotland Overflow Water
ÍSNET	GPS Network surveys of the National Land Survey of Iceland (Landmælingar Íslands)

      J

JMFZ	Jan Mayen Fracture Zone

      K

KR	Kolbeinsey Ridge

      L

LBA	Labrador–Baffin axis
LGM	Last Glacial Maximum (extension)
LIP	Large igneous provinces

      M

M or MW	Moment magnitude
MAR	Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Mb	Body-wave magnitude
ML	Local magnitude
MS	Surface-wave magnitude

      N

N-MORB	Normal mid-ocean ridge basalts (depleted)
NADW	North Atlantic Deep Water
NAIP	North Atlantic Igneous Province
NAM	North America
NEIC	National Earthquake Information Center (United States)
NGRIP	North Greenland Ice Core Project
NVZ	North Volcanic Zone

      O

OIB	Ocean island basalts
OSC	Overlapping spreading center

      R

RP	Reykjanes Peninsula
RR	Reykjanes Ridge

      S

SDRs	Seaward-dipping reflectors
SIL	South Iceland Lowland network
SISZ	South Iceland Seismic Zone

T

TFZ	Tjörnes Fracture Zone

      U

USGS	United States Geological Survey

      W

WVZ	West Volcanic Zone

      Preface

       Brigitte VAN VLIET-LANOË and Françoise BERGERAT

      This collective work is the logical conclusion of more than 30 years of French research in Iceland, with the support of various programs and institutions. It has also benefitted from the contribution of a CNRS Thematic School on Iceland, which was held in Brest in 2010 and which was strongly impacted by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. This book is the fruit of the work of a group of complementary researchers who are very fond of Iceland. Our thoughts turn to Jacques Angelier who left this basaltic ship a little too early. There are multiple authors to each chapter – with a principal author for each one – in order to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the discussed scientific problems and take into account all our publications up to the most recent ones (2019–2020).

      French research in Iceland began in the mid-1980s, initiated by Françoise Bergerat (Sorbonne Université, formerly Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris) in search of an “emerging oceanic ridge”, in collaboration with Jacques Angelier†, then Catherine Homberg. Very quickly, this collaboration was extended to Icelandic colleagues, Águst Guðmundsson (London), Kristjan Sæmundsson, Ragnar Stefánsson and Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson †. The first work focused on the analysis of brittle deformations and then turned to sismotectonics.

This work was then supplemented, from the 2000s, by the geodetic campaigns of the team from the Université de Savoie in Chambéry led by Thierry Villemin in collaboration with Halldór Geirsson and his group. At the beginning of the 1990s, Laurent Geoffroy began (in Paris) work on the Thule basaltic provinces (Scotland, Ireland, Faroe Islands),