Lava-Cooling Operations During the 1973 Eruption of Eldfell
Volcano, Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-724
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Figure 2. Index maps of Iceland, the
Vestmannaeyjar volcanic archipelago, and the island of Heimaey with
the fishing community of Vestmannaeyjar. (Modified from Williams
and Moore, 1976 a, b and 1983, and the National Land Survey of
Iceland, 1979.)
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Richard S. Williams, Jr., Editor
U.S. Geologic Survey, Woods Hole Field Center, MA
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In order to protect public and private property from being
destroyed by lava flows, various plans and actual attempts have
been made in the past on volcanoes to stop or divert lava flows.
The most extensive ever attempted, however, were the lava-cooling
operations on Heimaey, Iceland, and the two
excellent accounts of the operations that were published in
Icelandic by a geophysicist, Thorbjörn
Sigurgeirsson, and two engineers,
Valdimar Kr. Jónsson and
Matthías Matthíasson, are translated into English
in this open-file report.
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