First stop: sampling geothermal wells at Krafla.
Jói installing a Webre gas-liquid separator on a geothermal borehole vent
Noble gas geoscientists looking for a good hot spring to sample at Þeistareykir
This mud pool would not be very easy to sample
Mud pool at Þeistareykir with the new geothermal power plant steaming in the background
A new well at Þeistareykir is making a lot of steam and noise
I took a sample of the Bárdarbunga lava Krepputunguhraun, which is covered with cream-colored tephra from 1875 Askja eruption.
Pete Barry and Sæmi Halldórsson, old PhD mates and noble gas experts
Mt. Upptyppingar marks the northern end of the Kverkfjöll fissure swarm.
Kverkfjöll volcanic wastelands
The ground is often covered in red scoria. Holocene crater in the back.
Maja and large pillows.
Our goal was to sample the glassy rims of these subglacially erupted pillow basalts. There's no lack of them in Kverkfjöll.
Kverkfjöll mountain is like a chess king behind his pawns..
Lindahraun lies on top of interglacial lavas partly covered by jökulhlaup deposits. Pillow ridges and the central volcano in the background
Crossing over the Lindaá river
Hvannalindir, an angelica oasis next to Lindahraun terminus.
One of the craters of Lindahraun, the most recent Kverkfjöll lava
Lindahraun crater scoria
The Sigurðarskáli mountain hut is the best mountain hut in the neighbourhood.