Ágúst Guðmundsson, GeoIce
I was raised traveling around Iceland with my geologist father and geographer mother, as he worked on various aspects of the hydro-electrification of Iceland. My father, Ágúst Guðmundsson has worked as a geologist for over 50 years and is now spending his retirement summarizing his conclusions on various aspects of Icelandic geology.
As he made geological maps of Iceland one of his specialties became reading the tundra and identifying geological phenomena like rock-glaciers (urðarjöklar) which are ‘crawling glaciers’ (skriðjöklar) that at first glance look like a rocky landslide but really are glaciers covered in the rock they carry forward. Glaciers disguised as landslides, as pictured.
Ágúst Gudmundsson: “Fyrir liðlega 30 árum fór ég að grúska dýpra í hvernig lagskiptingin “hreiðraði” um sig í “berghlaupunum”. Eftir að hafa stautað mikið um þessi fjöll á tveimur jafnfljótum fannst mér miða hægt og leigði þá smáa flugvél á Akureyri og krumsprangaði góða stund yfir fjöllum Tröllaskaga, Ég taldi að skýringin blasti við í skálabotnum í afdölum Hjaltadals. Yfirborð þessara djásna krumpast við að ísinn í aftursætinu þrýstir urðarjöklunum fram og svo þegar innri ís fer að rýrna og hægist á skriðinu kemur bara önnur sprækari tunga og “ullar” framan í þá eldri og hægari og getur jafnvel kaffært hana. “
Below are a few of his articles, I hope I’ll be able to convince him to get a LinkedIn Profile and post links to his writings in order to get his analysis of the geology of Iceland registered on the Internet for posterity.
Thora's blog - Thorlaug Borg Ágústsdóttir 