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THORLEIFUR EINARSSON 



SOGAMYRI 



Fig. 2. Pollen diagram from Sogamyri, southwestern Iceland. 



present water-divide. Therefore it seems probable that the ice-sheet in northern 

 Iceland during the Last Glacial was much thinner than in southern Iceland. 

 Perhaps there was only a great valley glaciation in northern Iceland, where 

 mountains and mountain ridges protruded as nunataks through the ice, as 

 indicated from geomorphological studies by Thorarinsson (1937) and 

 Trausti Einarsson (1959) (Fig. 3). 



On the northwestern peninsula there was another ice-center but on the 

 outer mountain ridges there may have been ice-free areas. The sea level during 



