{"id":3082,"date":"2012-10-15T23:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2012-10-16T00:36:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:36:40","slug":"new-hydrothermal-area-found-in-steingrimsfirdi-north-west-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"New hydrothermal area found in Steingr\u00edmsfir\u00f0i, north-west Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrothermal_vent\" target=\"_blank\">hydrothermal area<\/a> has been found somewhere off the coast of West-Iceland. In a fjord named <a href=\"http:\/\/is.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steingr%C3%ADmsfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur\" target=\"_blank\">Steingr\u00edmsfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/a>. The exact location of this hydrothermal area is not known at current time. But it&#8217;s existence was confirmed by a rock that was found by a fisherman in the area. But it was captured by his fishnet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/steingrimsfjordur.map_.2012.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/steingrimsfjordur.map_.2012.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"steingrimsfjordur.map.2012\" width=\"807\" height=\"730\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/steingrimsfjordur.map_.2012.jpeg 807w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/steingrimsfjordur.map_.2012-300x271.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe hydrothermal area is somewhere in this area out in the ocean. Exact location is unknown at present time. Image is from Wikipedia. Original copy can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/is.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Mynd:Steingrimsfjordur.svg&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known of this area for now. But it is there based on the evidence of the rock formation. The water in this hydrothermal area is around 60 to 80C warm. That is a guess based on other well known hydrothermal areas close to this area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic news about this. With limited details on this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandir.is\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=11066&#038;Itemid=2\" target=\"_blank\">Hverastr\u00fdtur \u00ed Steingr\u00edmsfir\u00f0i<\/a> (strandir.is)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New hydrothermal area has been found somewhere off the coast of West-Iceland. In a fjord named Steingr\u00edmsfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The exact location of this hydrothermal area is not known at current time. But it&#8217;s existence was confirmed by a rock that was found by a fisherman in the area. But it was captured by his fishnet. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New hydrothermal area found in Steingr\u00edmsfir\u00f0i, north-west Iceland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-springs","category-hydrothermal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}