Gallery The Iceland Team of eight. Note, the two way up the slope near the bedrock bluffs and dykes. Small ‘spires’ on lave flow The level ‘table top’ mountains formed by glacial erosion of Tertiary basalts Examine the red layers within the Tertiary basalts Capturing the drone Mafic dykes in slopes on south side of tunnel The climb up to the scoria cone The comfy bus ride ends? Callie and Alex enjoying the warm waters of a geothermally heated river near the Nesjavellir geothermal power station Alex and Tim taking a selfie at a geothermally heated river near the Nesjavellir geothermal power station Alex and Tim taking a selfie at a geothermal river near the Nesjavellir geothermal power station One of the borehole stations used to extract geothermal fluids from the subsurface Callie and Alex enjoying the warm waters of a geothermally heated river near the Nesjavellir geothermal power station The group at a geothermally heated river near the Nesjavellir geothermal power station Toby and Byron getting a close up look at some of the geothermally altered basalt within the region surrounding the Nesjavellir geothermal power station The group pondering about the mineralogy of geothermally altered basalts near the Nesjavellir geothermal power station The Nesjavellir geothermal power station from one of the many nearby hiking trails Some of the components of the heat exchange system at the Hellisheiði geothermal power station The entrance to the Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Station Entrance to the Raufarhólshelli Lava Tube A photo of the group inside the Raufarhólshelli Lava Tube Inside of the Raufarhólshelli Lava Tube showing the barricade used to restrict access Heimaey Island from the Vestmannaeyjar Herjólfur Ferry Heimaey Island from the Vestmannaeyjar Herjólfur Ferry Tertiary rocks A look at Heimaey when it is nice Group photo of very happy geologists Imagine a volcanic crater here Overlooking Heimaey The hike begins A side view of the waterfall. Seljalandsfoss An outcrop of resistant ash deposits. Layering could be seen in the ash deposits. The black sand beach, Kirkjufjara and one lonely sea stack. The boys fighting the wind at Dyrhólaey. Nap time! The endless sandur, Skeiðarársandur. A meltwater lake. Annual and recessional moraines can be seen as linear sediment features behind. Lupine fields leading up to Svínafellsjökull. Group photo around the backside of the falls. Can you guess who’s who? Group photo standing on the glacier – some more comfortable than others… Aaron and I basking in the glory of Svínafellsjökull. The group taking notes on the glacial landforms visible on the hike in. Payton wandering between the continents. Tim geologizing by the North American Plate boundary. The Eurasian plate can be observed on the opposite side, on the right side of the picture. Another example of geothermal minerals at Gunnuhver Hot Springs. A view of the geothermal system with the hot springs and a geothermal power station to the left. Toby walking up to the steaming Gunnuhver hot spring area. Tim Stokes gazes at the various brightly-coloured minerals of the Krysuvik hot springs. Students examine the geothermal steam, hot springs and various coloured minerals. Volcanic ash layers on the side of the road. The students, and our trusty van with Lake Kleifarvatn in the background. Example of a typical volcanic landscape in Iceland. Capturing notes during a lunch break A steep climb up to an intrusive diorite pluton Friendly locals! A Viking Village built for a movie scene The amphitheatre-like landscape at Stokeness The oldest rocks in Iceland – Tertiary basalts Intrusive rocks at Helvar Point Amazing view of the Jokulsarlon lagoon at the terminus of the Breioamerkurjokull glacier. Display of the bridge wreckage of 1996 on the skeioararsandur. The what seems to be endless historic basalt lava flow, covered in the thick luscious moss. The front of the Solheimajokull glacier View from the top of the waterfall, looking over the river drainage system. Veiw from the front of the Skogafoss Waterfall View from the Eyjafjallajökull information center, just imagine a beautiful glacier behind the fog.