Iceland Within the Northern Atlantic, Volume 1. Группа авторов

      Preface

       Brigitte VAN VLIET-LANOË and Françoise BERGERAT

      This collective work is the logical conclusion of more than 30 years of French research in Iceland, with the support of various programs and institutions. It has also benefitted from the contribution of a CNRS Thematic School on Iceland, which was held in Brest in 2010 and which was strongly impacted by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. This book is the fruit of the work of a group of complementary researchers who are very fond of Iceland. Our thoughts turn to Jacques Angelier who left this basaltic ship a little too early. There are multiple authors to each chapter – with a principal author for each one – in order to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the discussed scientific problems and take into account all our publications up to the most recent ones (2019–2020).

      French research in Iceland began in the mid-1980s, initiated by Françoise Bergerat (Sorbonne Université, formerly Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris) in search of an “emerging oceanic ridge”, in collaboration with Jacques Angelier†, then Catherine Homberg. Very quickly, this collaboration was extended to Icelandic colleagues, Águst Guðmundsson (London), Kristjan Sæmundsson, Ragnar Stefánsson and Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson †. The first work focused on the analysis of brittle deformations and then turned to sismotectonics.

This work was then supplemented, from the 2000s, by the geodetic campaigns of the team from the Université de Savoie in Chambéry led by Thierry Villemin in collaboration with Halldór Geirsson and his group. At the beginning of the 1990s, Laurent Geoffroy began (in Paris) work on the Thule basaltic provinces (Scotland, Ireland, Faroe Islands),