Multiple raised beach ridges -- Furufjordur, NW Iceland

 

 

This is a very spectacular image from Google Earth (using the oblique / 3D tool) showing the strandlines or beach ridges in the bay of Furufjordur, on the east side of Drangajokull.  In the bays which held outlet glaciers from the ice cap, there are no high strandlines because the ice edges were far advanced.  However, Furufjordur did not carry such a glacier, so the sea was avle to affect the coastline at a much earlier stege in the process of isostatic recovery.

The highest strandlines in Vestfirdir (the western fjords) are above 135m, and the traces are scattered and difficult to interpret.  But here things are rather obvious -- and the marine limit is probably closer to 40m.