Háskóli ÍslandsUniversity of IcelandBjarnason, Ingi ÞorleifurMenke, WilliamFlóvenz, Ólafur G.2019-09-022019-09-021994-09-100148-0227https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1234Publisher's version (útgefin grein)The central question discussed by Gudmundsson [this issue] can be succinctly stated: "Is the temperature of the shallowest upper mantle of Iceland at the peridotite solidus" (nominally, 1200°C). The traditional view, as developed by numerous authors during the 1970s and early 1980s (reviewed by Palmason [1986]) and to which Gudmundsson ascribes, is that it is supersolidus and partially molten.17,915-17,917eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessJarðeðlisfræðiJarðmöttullJarðskorpaJarðhitiinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleJournal of geophysical research