What is this data?

Geological maps show the age and type of Iceland’s bedrock and loose strata, along with various features that relate to the development of the island and its geology, such as craters, fracture zones, geothermal heat, fossils and dip.

The mapping of Iceland’s geology has been one of the IINH’s main activities from the time that Guðmundur Kjartansson published the first geological map of Iceland in 1962. The data used to compile geological maps comes from many different quarters, and the IINH has collaborated closely with other institutions in obtaining data. The IINH has prepared geological maps at various scales, of which 1:500 000 and 1:250 000 have been the most frequently used to date.

Where is it available ?

• Overview of the maps 
• Metadata for the maps

To get the scanned version of the existing maps you have to contact the head of the Earth Science Institute.

Main references:

• Jóhanneson (1994) Geological map of Iceland, West Iceland, sheet 2, 1:250000, Icelandic Geodetic Survey and the museum of Natural history.
• Jóhanneson et al. (1990) Geological map of Iceland, South Iceland, sheet 6, 1:250000, Icelandic Geodetic Survey and the museum of Natural history.
• Kjartansson (1960) Geological map of Iceland, South-West Iceland, sheet 3, 1:250000, Geodetic Institute Map of Iceland and the Cultural fund, Reykjavík.
• Kjartansson (1965) Geological map of Iceland, Central Iceland, sheet 5, 1:250000, Geodetic Institute Map of Iceland and the Cultural fund, Reykjavík.
• Sæmundsson (1977) Geologic map of Iceland, Noreth Iceland, sheet 7, 1:250000, Icelandic Geodetic Survey and the museum of Natural history

What is this data?

Geographical information database with information on, Livestock, population, ownership and landcover changes for Austur-Skaftafellssýsla from settlement. The data is in Lambert conformal conic and datum is ISN93. The data comes from various historical records.

Where is it available ?

The creation of this database is a part of Friðþór Sófus Sigurmundssons Ph.D. project: 1100 years of natural and cultural landscape dynamics south of Vatnajökull. Supervised by Guðrún Gísladóttir.

Main references:

1. Annales Islandici posteriorum sæculorum I-VI. (1922-1987). Reykjavík.
2. Benediktsson, J. (ed.) 1968. Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, Íslenzk fornrit 1. Hið íslenska fornritafélag, Reykjavík, Iceland.
3. Diplomatarium Islandicum (DI). (1857–1952). Íslenskt fornbréfasafn. 16 vols. of Icelandic documents. S.L. Möller and Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag, Copenhagen,Denmark, and Reykjavík, Iceland.
4. Kirkjueignir á Íslandi. (1992). Reykjavík: Kirkjueignarnefnd.
5.  Kristjánsson, J. (ed.) (2002). Biskupasögur. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag.
6.  Magnúson, Á. and Vídalín, P. (1918-1921). Jarðabók II Árnessýsla. Kaupmannahöfn: Hið íslenska fræðafélag.

What is this data ?

Geographical information database maintained by Iceland Geodetic Survey with information on elevation, roads, hydrology, coastline and land cover. The data is in Lambert conformal conic and datum is ISN93 or ISN2004.

The topographic data is based on various data sets and the figure below shows source data for the topographic data.

Where is it available ?

The data can be downloaded free of charge. It can also be accessed in the GIS lab and on the Samba drive.

References:

Landmælingar Íslands

What is this data ?

The LUKR databases are the GIS database for Reykjavík City. They are divided into many so-called data themes each of which contains information about a specific type of spatial information, such as buildings, boundaries between houses, contour lines, road edges, and roads, benches, parks

Where is it available ?

The LUKR databases are available on the SAMBA drive

References:

• Country information (LUKR) at Reykjavik City

What is this data ?

The soil map includes soil classes according to the Icelandic Soil Classification System. The map was created by the Icelandic Agricultural University (IAU, former Rala) from various sources: wetlands are redrawn from vegetation maps published by the IAU and the Icelandic Institute of Natural History (IINH) in scale 1:500 000, boundaries between vegetated and non–vegetated land were based on an erosion map published by the IAU and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) (Arnalds et al., 1997) in the scale 1:10 000 and the ´vegetation image´ created by the National Land Survey (NLS), definition of the distribution of different wetland soil classes was performed by analysing carbon content in soil samples sampled along transects in NW– and W–Iceland (Arnalds and Óskarsson, 2009). The scale of the soil map is estimated to be ranging from 1:100 000–250 000.

Where is it available ?

The data is viewable through the website of the Nytjaland project (The Icelandic Farmland Database)

Along with the soil map, the referred erosion map is also opional for viewing,  along with the general vegetation map from the Nytjaland project, land use classification and more.

References:

• Arnalds, Ó., and Óskarsson, H., 2009. Íslenskt jarðvegskort. Náttúrufræðingurinn 78 (3–4), 107–121.
• Arnalds, Ó., Óskarsson, H., Gísladóttir, F., Grétarsson, E., 2009. Jarðvegskort af Íslandi. Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands, Reykjavík. www.lbhi.is/jardvegsstofa
• Arnalds, Ó., Þórarinsdóttir, E.F., Metúsalemsson, S., Jónsson, Á., Grétarsson, E., Árnason, A., 1997. Jarðvegsrof á Íslandi (Soil erosion in Iceland). Landgræðsla ríkisins and Rannsóknastofnun landbúnaðarins.

What is this data ?

These databases include detailed mapping of fractures and eruptive fissures of many of the fissure swarms and fracture systems in Iceland.  Databases available include:

• The South Iceland Seismic Zone
• The Northern Volcanic Zone
• Parts of the Tjörnes Fracture Zone
• The Húsavík – Flatey faults
• The Reykjanes Peninsula Oblique Rift
• The Tungnafellsjökull fissure swarm (Central Iceland)

Where is it available?  

For access contact Gro B. M. Pedersen 

References:   

Björnsdóttir, 2012. The fissure swarm of Tungnafellsjökull: Recent movements, M.Sc. thesis, Faculty of Earth Sciences. University of Iceland, Reykjavík.

Björnsdóttir, Einarsson, P., (submitted 2012). Evidence of recent movements in the Tungnafellsjökull fissure swarm in the Central Volcanic Zone, Iceland. Jökull.

Clifton, A.E., Kattenhorn, S.A., 2006. Structural architecture of a highly oblique divergent plate boundary segment. Tectonophysics 419, 27-40.

Clifton, A.E., Schlische, R.W., 2003. Fracture populations on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: Comparison with experimental clay models of oblique rifting. J Geophys Res-Solid Earth 108, 17.

Einarsson, P., 2010. Mapping of Holocene surface ruptures in the South Iceland Seismic Zone. Jökull 60, 117-134.

Hjartardóttir, A.R., Einarsson, P., Bramham, E., Wright, T.J., 2012. The Krafla fissure swarm, Iceland and its formation by rifting events. Bull. Volcanol. 74, 2139-2153.

Hjartardóttir, Á.R., 2008. The fissure swarm of the Askja central volcano. M.Sc. thesis, University of Iceland.

Hjartardóttir, Á.R., Einarsson, P., 2012. The Kverkfjöll fissure swarm and the eastern boundary of the Northern Volcanic Rift Zone, Iceland. Bull Volcanol 74, 143-162.

Hjartardóttir, Á.R., Einarsson, P., Brandsdóttir, B., 2010. The Kerlingar fault, Northeast Iceland: A Holocene normal fault east of the divergent plate boundary. Jökull 60, 103-116.

Hjartardóttir, Á.R., Einarsson, P., Sigurðsson, H., 2009. The fissure swarm of the Askja volcanic system along the divergent plate boundary of N Iceland. Bull Volcanol 71, 961-975.

Magnúsdóttir, S., Brandsdóttir, B., 2011. Tectonics of the Þeistareykir fissure swarm. Jökull 61, 65-79.

• CCM River and catchment data base

• CORINE Land Cover