How ice can eat away a basalt plateau

 

 

This is a fabulous image from a new high resolution LIDAR (?) coverage of Iceland:

https://atlas.lmi.is/mapview/?application=DEM

You can zoom in almost everywhere to get amazing imagery of the land surface in great detail.  Above we see a small segment, of the plateau (or what is left of it) around Dyrafjordur, NW Iceland.

What we would have given to have imagery like this when we were working in Iceland in the 1970's.........