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The peninsula has a volcanic origin having the Snæfellsnes volcanic belt down its centre, and the Snæfellsjökull volcano, regarded as one of the symbols of Iceland, at its western tip. With its height of 1,446 m (4,744 ft), it is the highest mountain on the peninsula and has a glacier at its peak (jökull means "glacier" in Icelandic).
This is an area of renewed intra-plate volcanism in the North American Plate, [17] with rocks no older locally than 800,000 years, [1] that overlay an extinct rift zone that produced the more than 5 million years old crustal basement tholeiitic flood basalts of the Snæfellsnes peninsula.
Abstracted geological map of Snæfellsnes volcanic belt for use in articles on Snæfellsjökull, Helgrindur, Ljósufjöll,Snæfellsnes and Geological deformation of Iceland. Use of the file in other articles will revert to standard colours that do not distinguish between the three volcanoes except if a user uses mouse-over.
Helgrindur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhɛlˌkrɪntʏr̥], also known as Lýsuskarð, Lysuhóll or Lysukard) [2] [3] is a volcanic mountain range or massif in the middle of the Snæfellsnes peninsula that provides a backdrop to the port of Grundarfjörður.
Kirkjufell (Icelandic: [ˈcʰɪr̥cʏˌfɛtl̥] ⓘ, "Church Mountain") is a 463 m [1] high hill on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country. [ 2 ]
It contains cinder cones and is the only system on the peninsula that has erupted in recorded history, in 960 CE ± 10. [2] This produced from a single crater a 13 km 2 (5.0 sq mi) lava flow called Rauðhálsahraun [ˈrœyðˌhaulsaˌr̥œyːn] , and a tephra scoria layer that covered about 50 km 2 (19 sq mi). [ 1 ]
Hellissandur at Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Hellissandur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhɛtlɪsˌsantʏr̥]) is a village and part of the Snæfellsbær municipality at the northwestern tip of Snæfellsnes peninsula in western Iceland. Once an important fishing post, the village has recently experienced growth in tourism.
Stykkishólmur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈstɪhcɪsˌhoulmʏr̥] ⓘ) is a town and municipality situated in the western part of Iceland, in the northern part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. It is a center of services and commerce for the area. Most of the people make their living from fishing and tourism.