Overview
- Contains numerous photographs showing geological features of the route
- Easy to understand explanations of the geological processes that formed the landscape
- Includes additional geological excursion guides beside the Golden Circle
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: GeoGuide (GEO)
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Agust Gudmundsson was a volcanologist at the Nordic Volcanological Institute, University of Iceland, for many years, before being appointed to the Chair of Hydrogeology of Solid Rocks at the University of Bergen (Norway) and subsequently the Chair of Structural Geology and Geodynamics at the University of Göttingen (Germany). A leading volcanologist and structural geologist, as well as being editor of many earth-science journals and a member of the European Academy (Academia Europaea), Gudmundsson holds a University of London Chair of Structural Geology at Royal Holloway (United Kingdom). Gudmundsson has been a guide on many geological excursions in Iceland, both for geoscientists as well as for general visitors, including all those described in the book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle
Authors: Agust Gudmundsson
Series Title: GeoGuide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55152-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55151-7Published: 27 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55152-4Published: 25 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 216 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Earth Science, Structural Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy