Tag: Iceland
Stone carved with Viking ship may be oldest drawing found in Iceland
Archaeologists in Iceland have found a sandstone carved with a Viking ship that may be the oldest picture ever found in the country. The...
Recent findings from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall eruptions change what we know about how volcanoes work
It isn't every day that we learn something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world. But for UC Santa Barbara Earth scientist Matthew...
As tectonic plates pull apart, what drives the formation of rifts?
At the boundaries between tectonic plates, narrow rifts can form as Earth's crust slowly pulls apart. But how, exactly, does this rifting happen? Does...
Disturbing Viking ritual could have really happened, say researchers
For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished story...
Fires in Iceland: Human interference even 1,100 years ago
For the first time, the analysis of an ice core taken from the east coast of Greenland, in Renland, has allowed researchers to recreate...
‘Icelandia’ – Is Iceland the tip of a vast, sunken continent?
A team of experts led by Professor Gillian Foulger from our Department of Earth Sciences, believes they have identified a remarkable geological secret; a...