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Hlöðufell

Hlöðufell from south direction.

My MS thesis in geophysics:
Paleomagnetic studies of hyaloclastite mountains, indications of duration of buildup

Using the drill in Undirhlíðar to get magnetic core samples. Photo my sister, Ragnhildur took.
Sampling site in Þórólfsfell, Hlöðufell is in the background. My brother Gunni and my friend and Geologist Haraldur Gunnarsson using the equipment. This was in autumn 2014 when I had broken my shoulder and was not able to do anything but to tell those two great guys what to do!
My brother Gunni, using the drill in Hlöðufell. He was with me in many of the research trips and I definitely needed assistance since my right leg was healing after serious injury.
An example of a sampling site in Hlöðufell.
Sample cores ready for sawing before measurements in the laboratory at University of Iceland.
Lava formations in Hlöðufell.
From the north lava bench of Hlöðufell. Area were I think very few people have been.
Lava formations from the Northö-East part of Hlöðufell.
Volcanic formations from Hlöðufell.
Some Holocene glacial striae on top of Hlöðufell. All striea we found were in direction to top of the mountain so the movement of the glacier making them was movement of the local glacier moving in the formation of the mountain itself.
Pillow lava in Undirhlíðar quarry – the area where I was doing the first part of study, mostly as a sampling exercise.
Some northern-lights I witnessed in one of the last research trips to Hlöðufell. The beautifully formed mountain on the photo is its sister, the lava shield volcano Skjaldbreiður.