Iceland Field Trip: July 2014

August 7, 2014
Tsunami-generated strandline on snow

Twenty-three undergraduate Geology majors, eight graduate students, and four professors spent two weeks in Iceland, where they circumnavigated the island, explored young volcanoes and geothermal centers, and mapped the extent of tsunami waves produced by a large landslide into a caldera that occurred only hours earlier.

Events at Askja volcano  (PDF)


News story about the Iceland fieldtrip on ucsb.edu