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... . Hekla , for instance , is a fell , whilst the terrible Skapta is a jökull . The most violent volcanic action seems to lie in a band from Krafla to Reykjanes . In this belt lie the following principal volcanoes - Krafla XX INTRODUCTION .
... . Hekla , for instance , is a fell , whilst the terrible Skapta is a jökull . The most violent volcanic action seems to lie in a band from Krafla to Reykjanes . In this belt lie the following principal volcanoes - Krafla XX INTRODUCTION .
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... whilst others have erupted but once . The intervals between these explosions have been most irre- gular . Those of Hekla have varied from six to seventy - six years , and the intervals between the eruptions of Katla from six to three ...
... whilst others have erupted but once . The intervals between these explosions have been most irre- gular . Those of Hekla have varied from six to seventy - six years , and the intervals between the eruptions of Katla from six to three ...
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... whilst the fire and water have found vent at the gashed crown . The perfectly symmetrical craters are Eldborg , Hverfjall , Vilíngafjall , Borg in Vithidal , and every mountain named Skál . The lava stream from Eireks jökull we ...
... whilst the fire and water have found vent at the gashed crown . The perfectly symmetrical craters are Eldborg , Hverfjall , Vilíngafjall , Borg in Vithidal , and every mountain named Skál . The lava stream from Eireks jökull we ...
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... whilst the mean of the former is very nearly the same as that of Moscow , the mean of Akureyri is about that of Julians- haab , in Greenland . The isotherm of 32 ° , which is that of Akureyri , touches the north Cape , on the continent ...
... whilst the mean of the former is very nearly the same as that of Moscow , the mean of Akureyri is about that of Julians- haab , in Greenland . The isotherm of 32 ° , which is that of Akureyri , touches the north Cape , on the continent ...
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... whilst on a voyage to the Faroe Isles . Naddothr satisfied himself , by a casual survey from the top of a hill on the east coast , that the land was too dreary to be inviting , and he called it Snjá - land . Four years later , a Swede ...
... whilst on a voyage to the Faroe Isles . Naddothr satisfied himself , by a casual survey from the top of a hill on the east coast , that the land was too dreary to be inviting , and he called it Snjá - land . Four years later , a Swede ...
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