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Secondary polygons in Iceland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

Sigurdur Thorarinsson
Sigurdur Thorarinsson*
Affiliation:
Division of Earth Sciences, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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Journal of Glaciology , Volume 8 , Issue 53 , 1969 , pp. 321
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Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1969

The Editor,

Journal of Glaciology

Sir, Secondary polygons in Iceland

In his letter, R. W. Reference GrovesGroves (1968) mentions secondary polygons within primary ones, discovered by him on a summit plateau of a 998 m high peak in north-west Iceland. As Mr Groves thinks that this species of patterned ground is “possibly hitherto undescribed”, I wish to point out that I have already described this type of polygon (Thorarinsson, 1953). I observed these polygons in Berufjördur, east Iceland, about 20 m above sea-level, and I later observed the same type of polygon in several other places in Iceland, both in lowland and highland areas.

18 December 1968

References

Groves, R. W. 1968. Primary and secondary polygons. Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 7, No. 49, p. 130–32. [Letter.] Thorarinsson, S. 1953. Anchored stone polygons at low levels within the Iceland basalt regions., Jökull, Ár 3, p. 37–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar