Snæfellsjökull: Iceland

Snæfellsjökull is a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano with an ice sheet covering its summit in western Iceland. The name of the mountain is really Snæfell, however it is ordinarily called "Snæfellsjökull" to recognize it from two different mountains with this name. It is arranged on the most western part of the Snæfellsnes landmass in Iceland. Infrequently it might be seen from the city of Reykjavík over Faxa Bay, at a separation of 120 km.



The mountain is a standout amongst the most celebrated destinations of Iceland, basically because of the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne, in which the heroes discover the passageway to an entry prompting to the focal point of the earth on Snæfellsjökull.

The mountain is incorporated into the Snæfellsjökull National Park.

In August 2012 the summit was sans ice without precedent for written history

The stratovolcano, which is the main vast focal spring of gushing lava in its piece of Iceland, has numerous pyroclastic cones on its flanks. Upper-flank holes created middle to felsic materials, while bring down flank cavities delivered basaltic magma streams. A few holocene ejections have started from the summit cavity and have created felsic material. The most recent emission occurred 200 AD ± 150 years, and emitted around 0.11 cubic kilometers (0.026 cu mi) worth of volcanic material. The emission was touchy and began from the summit hole, and may have delivered magma streams.

Snæfellsjökull National Park is Iceland's lone National Park to reach out to the seashore. The recreation center covers a zone of 170 km² (65 sq. miles). The Park's southern limit compasses to Háahraun in the area of Dagverðará while the northern part reaches to Gufuskálar. The drift is shifted and bursting at the seams with birdlife amid the rearing season. The beach front plain is for the most part secured by magma that spilled out of the icy mass or adjacent cavities. The magma is secured with greenery yet protected hollows can be found in numerous spots, loaded with a sizable assortment of flourishing, verdant plants. Snæfellsjökull has trails of magma and indications of volcanic movement unmistakably noticeable on its flanks. On its north side the Eysteinsdalur valley cuts a way up from the plain encompassed by appealing steep mountains.

The topography of Snæfellsnes Peninsula is various with arrangements from practically every time of Iceland's past. The more unmistakable arrangements in and around the National Park fundamentally date from geographically "present day" times back to the last ice age. The slopes toward the north of the icy mass, around Bárðarkista, are of volcanic palagonite tuff, shaped amid ejections under the ice sheet or underneath the surface of the ocean. Svalþúfa is in all probability the eastern segment of a hole that ejected under the ocean, while Lóndrangar is a volcanic attachment.

Magma is unmistakable on the scene of this National Park with two sorts show – unpleasant, rough magma and smooth, ropy magma. The vast majority of the magma radiated from the ice sheet, from the summit hole or from auxiliary holes on the flanks of the mountain. These magma developments are fluctuated and interesting, and there is an abundance of collapses the range. Guests are exhorted not to enter hollows unless joined by an accomplished guide. Littler volcanoes – Purkhólar, Hólahólar, Saxhólar and Öndverðarneshólar – are in the Park's swamps, encompassed by magma.