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Science 6 August 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3996, pp. 530 - 533
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3996.530
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Rifting in Iceland: New Geodetic Data

R. W. Decker 1, Páll Einarsson 2, and P. A. Mohr 3

1 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
2 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
3 Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Small but measurable lengthening of several survey lines within the eastern rift zone of Iceland occurred between 1967 and 1970. The changes can be interpreted as a widening of the rift by 6 to 7 centimeters, possibly during the 1970 eruption of Hekla volcano.


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