Iceland's Geologic Color Pattern
Rhyolite mountains of the Icelandic highlands, a unique geological formation resulting from high-silica volcanic activity and its array of colors due to rhyolites mineral composition and geothermal weathering.
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- Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (355)
- Energy, Resources and the Environment (370)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (996)
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- Europe (3935)
- Northern Europe (930)
- Iceland (289)
- Exact location (-20.0648 W, 63.9599 N)
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Taken in
2024
Submitted on 25 March 2026
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Maryse Schmidt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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