INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF ICELAND

The course starts with five excursion days in Southwest and South Iceland. The excursions are always in the first week before official start of the semester at the School of Engineering and Natural sciences. Thus students attending the course must make sure that they arrive to Iceland in good time. The excursions focus on both constructive and destructive geological processes. Following the excursions an intensive program of lectures covering the main aspects of Icelandic geology occupy five additional weeks. The themes of the lectures are on volcanology, tephrochronology, tectonics, petrology, glacier, glacial geology, oceanography, geochemistry, Cenozoic climate, history, and natural hazards