312 EEPOET UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



Table of hot sprincis and geusers of Iceland — Continued. 



Locality. 



Names of principal 

 springs. 



Eemarks. 



SOUTHEEN AREA— Con. 



Eeykium (south of east 

 firom Keykiavik, the 

 capital of Iceland). 



Krisuvik (south of Eey- 



kiavik). 

 Eeykiadal (Valley of 



Smoke, near Keyk 



holt). 



Geyser, Badstofa, Ak- 

 kra-hverar, Seyder 

 (Boiler). 



26-1- 



Sturlu-reykia-hverar, 

 Handa-iiver, Tungu- 

 hverar, Ar-hver 

 ( River Spring), Sori- 

 tla. 



Staffholt (westward 

 fromReykholt). 



■WESTERN AREA. 



Lysuhol 



Svina.dal 



Eeykiaholar . 



Krablanda . 



In Breidaflord 



EASTERN AREA. 



Eeykiahlid 



Volcano of Askja . . . 



144 

 Hot... 



Mount Krabla . 



Krabla or Kafla. 



Eeykiahverf (north- 

 west from Greuia- 

 darstad.) 



6+ 



ITordur-hver, O x a - 

 hver, Sydster-hver. 



The geyser has heen described in the 

 preceding pages. The Badstofa is 

 near tlie river, and sponts to the 

 height of 20 feet, the action lasting 

 10 minutes. Akkia-hvcrar are tw 

 lemarkably largo springs in a larg 

 assemblage of dprin'j;s on the sou' 

 side of the river. Seyder is a boil 

 one of a number of vapor springs. 



Mud springs, sulphur springs, an- 

 steam vents. 



The principal spring at this localit'~ 

 which is two mites from ReyKho 

 has three apertures, and resembles ^ 

 steam-euirine. The eruptions con- 

 tinue a minute, at intervals of 15 sec- 

 onds. Huuda-hver is connected with 

 the spring above, but is not of much 

 account. The Tuugu-hyerar are 

 about a mile below the other springs, 

 and consist of some sixteen boiling 

 springs. The river spring, with 

 three orifices, is on the summit of a 

 small rock in the river. There are 

 other springs in the water of the 

 river. Scribla is a hot, spouting 

 fountain in a morass, amid other hot 

 springs. 



Generally small springs that spout a 

 foot or so. They have no extensive 

 deposits. 



Has beautiful petrifactions. 



Unimportant. 



There are numerous springs at this 

 place. Kriiblanda spouts lo a height 

 of 3 or 4 feet for 5 minutes, with an 

 interval of 5 minutes, boiling be- 

 tween eruptions. 



Several springs in the sea and on roclrs 

 some exposed only at low water. 



Vapor bath here in the midst of st 

 vents and solfateiras. 



No particulars given by Lock, wuo 

 mentions them in Proc. E.Geogr. Soc, 

 1881, p. 471, vol. iii. 



This is a pool 300 feet in circumfer- 

 ence, spouting 30 feot every 5 min- 

 utes, lasting 2 J minutes, as seen 

 by Heuder.son; but in 1863, Baring 

 Gould says it was a cool, green pool. 

 There is a multitude of salses and 

 sulphur springs near here. 



Nordur-hver has a basin Sii feet by 33 

 feet, and a pipe 14 to 15 feet deep and 

 10 feet in diameter; very irregular ; 

 it boils .and spouts. Oxa-hver is an 

 oblong pipe, 8 feet in diameter, and 

 spouts every 5 or 6 minutes, 15 or 20 

 feet, lasting 1 minute. Sydster-hver 

 has three openings ; the large.st 

 spouts C feet for 2 minutes; one is 

 quiet, and the smallest one throws 

 three oblique jets, which alternate 

 with each other. 



* And higher. 



Note. — Hver, in Icelandic, means a large kettle, and is the general term for boiling springs or foun- 

 tains. Laug is a bath, and Beykir, one that sends up clouds of steam. ' Ndma is a pit of boiling mud. 



