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This is an area of renewed intra-plate volcanism in the North American Plate, [17] with rocks no older locally than 800,000 years, [1] that overlay an extinct rift zone that produced the more than 5 million years old crustal basement tholeiitic flood basalts of the Snæfellsnes peninsula.
The peninsula has a volcanic origin having the Snæfellsnes volcanic belt down its centre, and the Snæfellsjökull volcano, regarded as one of the symbols of Iceland, at its western tip. With its height of 1,446 m (4,744 ft), it is the highest mountain on the peninsula and has a glacier at its peak ( jökull means "glacier" in Icelandic ).
Kirkjufell (Icelandic: [ˈcʰɪr̥cʏˌfɛtl̥] ⓘ, "Church Mountain") is a 463 m [1] high hill on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country. [ 2 ]
Snæfellsnes is a peninsula in western Iceland.. Government Eyrbyggja Saga shows the Norse system of legalities on Snæfellsnes which used a trial by jury system. There was normally a local chieftain who oversaw property boundaries, settled disputes between landlords and blood feuds, and prosecuted criminals.
It contains cinder cones and is the only system on the peninsula that has erupted in recorded history, in 960 CE ± 10. [2] This produced from a single crater a 13 km 2 (5.0 sq mi) lava flow called Rauðhálsahraun [ˈrœyðˌhaulsaˌr̥œyːn] , and a tephra scoria layer that covered about 50 km 2 (19 sq mi). [ 1 ]
On the beach some spectacular rock formations are to be seen, one of which is a protruding cliff called Valasnös, which reaches across the ocean front and into the sea. Tunneling into this cliff there is a cave known for colorful changes of lighting and shades that vary in tune with the natural light and the movements of the sea.
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Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss is a relatively late Íslendingasaga, [1] probably dating to the early 14th century. [2] [3] It is preserved in 16th- and 17th-century paper and vellum manuscripts and one fragment of about 1400. [4]