Explain Why Iceland Exist
Why Iceland Exists
Iceland has an area of 103,000 kilometres square. This makes it the 18th largest island in the world. It is just south of the Arctic Circle. The Iceland hotspot and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge go right through Iceland. This is an essay about how tectonic activity and how it comes to form Iceland.
Location
Iceland is an island between the Greenland Sea and the Northern Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the United Kingdom Iceland is situated right in the North Atlantic Ocean. Iceland, positioned on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (A mid-ocean ridge is an underwater mountain range that is formed by plate tectonics) makes it vulnerable to volcanic eruptions and sometimes even earthquakes. The island is spilt by the North American plate and Eurasian plate. Iceland is also Europe’s westernmost country. Iceland gets the North Atlantic Current running by it so Iceland is kept at generally cold and damp temperatures. Iceland is the only land where the Mid-Atlantic ridge is running through it. This is why many geologists are so interested by its charismatic features.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge …show more content…
This is because of a huge underwater volcano. It was caused by volcanic magma erupting from the sea floor in the construction plate, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland has the greatest concentrations of volcanoes in the world. It has 130 volcanic mountains. Some of them are greater and more famous than the others. Most of them are situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge but some of them are on the fracture zones (Zones caused by pressure of the plates and are part of the constructive plate boundaries and destructive plate
Iceland has an area of 103,000 kilometres square. This makes it the 18th largest island in the world. It is just south of the Arctic Circle. The Iceland hotspot and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge go right through Iceland. This is an essay about how tectonic activity and how it comes to form Iceland.
Location
Iceland is an island between the Greenland Sea and the Northern Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the United Kingdom Iceland is situated right in the North Atlantic Ocean. Iceland, positioned on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (A mid-ocean ridge is an underwater mountain range that is formed by plate tectonics) makes it vulnerable to volcanic eruptions and sometimes even earthquakes. The island is spilt by the North American plate and Eurasian plate. Iceland is also Europe’s westernmost country. Iceland gets the North Atlantic Current running by it so Iceland is kept at generally cold and damp temperatures. Iceland is the only land where the Mid-Atlantic ridge is running through it. This is why many geologists are so interested by its charismatic features.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge …show more content…
This is because of a huge underwater volcano. It was caused by volcanic magma erupting from the sea floor in the construction plate, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland has the greatest concentrations of volcanoes in the world. It has 130 volcanic mountains. Some of them are greater and more famous than the others. Most of them are situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge but some of them are on the fracture zones (Zones caused by pressure of the plates and are part of the constructive plate boundaries and destructive plate