
A clean cut through rock
A dyke forced its way through a fine-grained, layered volcanic rock that was eroded by wind, snow and rain at the eastern part of Dyngjufjöll in Iceland. The contact between dyke and host rock is a mm-thick, black, glassy layer while the dykes brown interior is glass altered by heat and water.
Categories
- Cryospheric Sciences (699)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (945)
- Hydrological Sciences (655)
- Natural Hazards (509)
- Seismology (210)
Location
- Europe (3783)
- Northern Europe (905)
- Iceland (287)
- Exact location (-16.5907 W, 65.0334 N)
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3648 × 2736 px;
image/jpeg; 3.7 MB
Camera:
Nikon COOLPIX P7100
Software: Photoshop
Taken on 2
July
2017
Submitted on 10 February 2018
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Eva P. S. Eibl (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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