Lýsigagnagátt
Shorelines - Elevation
The geospatial data layer (lines) contains linear representations of shoreline features that can often be identified in the landscape. Ancient shorelines formed at different elevations, reflecting changes in sea level at various times during the Late Glacial period, towards the end of the last glaciation. The shorelines were digitised from maps in scientific publications, geological maps, field survey records and Maxar satellite imagery. An elevation contour layer derived from ArcticDEM was used to delineate the shorelines according to their elevation above sea level. The layer contains information on feature type, elevation above sea level and data sources. Feature types include shorelines, uncertain shoreline boundaries and the position of the glacier during the Late Glacial period. The uppermost shorelines were used to create a geospatial data layer (Uppermost Shorelines and Late Glacial Sea-Level Position), illustrating the potential extent of coastal landforms across Iceland at the time of the highest sea level.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-06-11
- Edition
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1
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural Science Institute of Iceland
Author Natural Science Institute of Iceland
Owner Natural Science Institute of Iceland
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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- INSPIRE
- High-value dataset
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Environment
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Elevation
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geoscientific information
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Iceland
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open data
- Keywords
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Use and redistribution are permitted, including commercial use, provided appropriate attribution is given. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel 2 data 2023–2025.
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- 34c09c48-459c-4d22-8549-e9b7ed96a5ac
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Initiative Type
- Project
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 25000 m
- Language
- ice
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Elevation
- Geoscientific information
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- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:8088
- Distribution format
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Name Version GeoJSON
GML
GeoPackage
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural Science Institute of Iceland
Publisher
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.natt.is/is Heimasíða NATT
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.natt.is/is/rannsoknir/rannsokna-og-voktunarverkefni/fornar-strandlinur-islandi About Ancient Shorelines in Iceland on the NÁTT website.
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--partners
https://www.natt.is/is/midlun/opin-gogn About open data on NATT website
OGC:WMS
https://gis.natt.is/geoserver/wms jardfraedi:fjorumork_fjorumork
OGC:WFS
https://gis.natt.is/geoserver/wfs jardfraedi:fjorumork_fjorumork
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-07-14
- Explanation
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The COG distribution conforms to the OGC Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF standard
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Data were collected from scientific publications, geological maps, field surveys, and personal communications.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ac090ed7-352e-4f73-a63c-4fd4028da588 XML
- Metadata language
- ice
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-11-04T11:58:54.670821452Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural Science Institution of Iceland
Skafti Brynjólfsson
Point of contact Natural Science Institution of Iceland
Nína Aradóttir
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding English UTF8 Icelandic UTF8
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