Abstract
Iceland lies on the mid — Atlantic ridge at a latitude where the full spreading rate is 2.2 cm / year, which was estimated from seafloor anomalies south of Iceland (Talwani and Eldholm, 1977). The ridge on land is comprised of transform zones and the so-called neovolcanic zone that is made up of numerous volcanic systems. The first geodetic measurements in the neovolcanic zone were carried out in 1938 by Niemczyk (Möller, 1989) in north-east Iceland. Subsequently a classical geodetic network with an extent of 110 km in the east-west direction has been developed, spanning the main part of the rift zone.
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Jahn, CH., Seeber, G., Foulger, G., Björnsson, A. (1990). A GPS Survey in the North-East Volcanic Zone of Iceland 1987 First Results. In: Vyskocil, P., Reigber, C., Cross, P.A. (eds) Global and Regional Geodynamics. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 101. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7109-4_21
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