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The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 277 — Chapter XL · THE MODERN VOLCANOES OF ICELAND AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TERTIARY VOLCANIC HISTORY OF NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE

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Mr. Thoroddsen has observed that in the Reykjanes peninsula in the south-west of Iceland, by the subsidence of one side of a fissure, a row of four craters has been cut through, leaving their segments perched upon the upper side. Globus. vol. lxix. No. 5.

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