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¥he shor«»llae throufhout miuh of its XdagtJb Is rocky 

 and frlng«d wltii raefs. 



iiendy »^ atony 4elt«8 have l^oa Imilt Ofut 

 into the fjord, troisi. the 3^uthS of 9«ver6l of %h& stT9«mB, 

 «e the FJBOSi^a the Horgl, and the str«am entering at 

 thtt fjord heed, south of Alcareyri. The sand and gravel 

 flooring- Olefs Fjord, near th© mouth of Syjs Fjord, and 

 extending out Into the main fjord is undoubtedly derives 

 from th« stroam at its hesd.Th® spit oelled Oddeyri , north 

 of Alcureyri, is a p®,rtiall.y-8ubm«rg@d tormiael moraine 

 reworJ:ed hy tidal ©ur rents (I0,p,81). 



Grix&aey Flak. B&thYm.^tV¥ and Bott-oa 3si:dlment3 



This ^ak r«8oh«s ©v®r thirty miles to saa- 

 wn&rd from th« p®ainsuls^ betvt^^a Syjs Fjord and Skjalfsa^i, 

 This peninsula for convfeniaacs will ha oslled the GjSgr 

 peninauls ftft»r tfes nortiaernmost point on it, 



JSxteadinF northward along its fef^cklboae, from 

 shore to outer and, is an irregular belt of gre-v^l ra aging: 

 froffi 2^ xdLlea to 10 miles wide. Along either side of thla 

 grevel lie belts of sand from 1 to S sdles wide, 

 jPost»Pleiatoo®ne aubsidenoe 



A great belt of doumf suiting intersects the 

 northern coast of Xe eland between the Gjdgr jyeainsula 

 and the western atasi of the Zjtni^nea penineula, SubaideaPe 



