The Faroe Islands and Iceland: key areas for North Atlantic paleoclimatic studies

A beautiful view over one of many Faroe fiords, with the typical N Atlantic building style.

Another typical setting on the Faroe Islands

The Saksunarvatn Ash in a lake on the Faroe Islands. This impressively

wide spread Holocene basaltic tephra is dated to 10,240 GRIP ice yr BP.

The whitish Vedde Ash (11,980 GRIP ice yr BP) to the left ca 15 cm from

the bottom and the thick Saksunarvatn Ash up to the right in a 1 m core

from Torfadalsvatn on the Skagi Peninsula, northern Iceland.

A kettle hole of an ice berg from the last jökelhlaup on Skeidar Sandur,

southern Iceland.

Ice bergs in front of Breidamerkurjökull, S Iceland