tindar

English

Etymology

Coined by American volcanologist John Gilbert Jones in 1968, after the Icelandic word Icelandic tindur (“pinnacle, peak”), although its plural form, tindar has, since Jones' coinage, been used incorrectly as the singular.^[1]

Noun

tindar (plural tindars)

(geology) An elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.

Related terms

Translations

glaciovolcanic ridge

Icelandic: móbergshryggur m sg (literally “ridge of peat-colored rock”)

References

^ Jones, John Gilbert (1968 October) “Intraglacial volcanoes of the Laugarvatn region, south-west Iceland—I”, in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society‎^[1], volume 124, number 1, Geological Society of London, →DOI, archived from the original on 2024-06-10, pages 197-211:
Those volcanoes of the Laugarvatn area which in this paper are termed 'tindars' (tindar is Icelandic for 'peaks' or 'pinnacles) form steep-sided linear ridges and linear groups of steep-sided mounds with profiles which are in some instances jagged, in others smooth. The tindars are aligned NE-SW, the volcano-tectonic trend in the Quaternary volcanic belt of south-west Iceland.

Icelandic

Noun

tindar

indefinite nominative plural of tindur

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tindar m

indefinite plural of tind

[jones-1968-1] Jones, John Gilbert (1968 October) “Intraglacial volcanoes of the Laugarvatn region, south-west Iceland—I”, in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society‎^[1], volume 124, number 1, Geological Society of London, →DOI, archived from the original on 2024-06-10, pages 197-211:
Those volcanoes of the Laugarvatn area which in this paper are termed 'tindars' (tindar is Icelandic for 'peaks' or 'pinnacles) form steep-sided linear ridges and linear groups of steep-sided mounds with profiles which are in some instances jagged, in others smooth. The tindars are aligned NE-SW, the volcano-tectonic trend in the Quaternary volcanic belt of south-west Iceland.

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