Iceland from the West to the South: A Meh Guide With Some Eye-Popping Mistakes

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So of course with all of the Iceland Volcano excitement, I had to run out and buy a bunch of books on Icelandic geology. It’s actually not super easy to find affordable ones in English. So I was very pleased to find one published by Springer for a good price: Iceland from the West to the South by Wolfgang Fraedrich. Springer is all about science written by scientists. I was stoked.

I have now read it, and…I’m considerably less stoked.

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