Climbing #Keilir Volcano #Iceland on October 5, #2021

From our latest volcano expedition on October 5, 2021. Keilir is a Pleistocene subglacial mound or perhaps a conical tuya on Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. Basal area is 0.773 km2, summit area 0.004 km2, basal width 0.99 km, summit width 0.07 km, volume 0.0362 km3. It is located within the area of Krýsuvík volcanic system and Reykjanesfólkvangur. It is about 17 miles southwest of the capital city Reykjavík, In March 2021 the mountain began to emit earthquakes followed by a fissure lava eruption further southwest at Fagradalsfjall.

Keilir was formed during a subglacial fissure eruption which concentrated in the end at one vent. Except the cone, also some small subglacially formed hills to the north are results of this eruption.

Eruptions under the Weichselian glaciers on Reykjanes Peninsula: When stratigraphy is considered in detail, it tells about the different parts of this eruption: The eruption thawed the glacier ice and formed a subglacial lake in which the volcano continued to develop. The water very soon touched the magma within the vent and caused explosive activity. Tephra set down in layers into the subglacial lake. With time, the tephra built up a hill and small elongated mountain over the vent(s). When such an eruption is continued over a longer time span, the water in the end does not reach the vent(s) any more and lava begins to flow.

In the top region of Keilir, there is a small cap of lava (area of lava cap 0,020 km2) which could mean that the volcanic mountain is a tuya (the lava being from subaerial eruptions at the end of the eruption series) or perhaps just represents a volcanic plug (the lava cooled and plugged up the vent).

Ice thickness and more exact time of eruption in the case of Keilir are not known, just that it took place during the Pleistocene (Weichselian).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keilir_(mountain)

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