The expedition was funded through the "Beyond Elasticity" project, a large research project funded through the very competitive FRIPRO program, Research Council of Norway.
The aspiration of "Beyond Elasticity" is to revisit our understanding of propagation and emplacement of magmatic sheet intrusions, such as dykes, sills and cone sheets. The primary objective of this project is to establish novel mechanical understanding of dyke and sill emplacement that reconciles the distinct magma emplacement models. We aim to show that, and quantify how much, inelastic deformation contributes to dyke and sill propagation and emplacement.
The field work is one part of this multidisciplinary project, which integrates laboratory modelling, numerical modelling and theory, and geophysics. The project gathers scientists from the Departments of Geosciences, Physics and Mathematics at the University of Oslo, as well as scientists from Iceland, Sweden, and UK.