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Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland


Subdeacon Joe

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One of the plate boundaries exposed 
Mid --- Atlantic Ridge in Iceland . Here Eurasia and North American plates are drifting apart .
Location :--+ Grjotagja cave , Iceland
Photo credit :--- Lynn Recker .

 

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Glad it is there...Living in California I would hate see us drop off as an island...The idea  of King Newson...Does not fly in my book.....

 

Texas Lizard

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1 hour ago, Texas Lizard said:

Glad it is there...Living in California I would hate see us drop off as an island...The idea  of King Newson...Does not fly in my book.....

 

Texas Lizard

The rest of us outside of California are waiting......

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26 minutes ago, Bailey Creek,5759 said:

Beginning of a new Grand Canyon?

 

Different mechanisms. Grand Canyon was formed by uplift and erosion,  the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is new material being brought to surface:

 

"Mid-ocean ridges occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth’s tectonic plates spread apart. As the plates separate, molten rock rises to the seafloor, producing enormous volcanic eruptions of basalt. "

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