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Iceland - recent eruption
Aug 29th, 2014 at 8:31am
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Iceland will eventually be split into two separate islands as it sits astride the mid-atlantic ridge.  The ridge is a divergent plate boundary and thus are continuously pulling apart from each other like giant conveyor belts.  How boring would geology be without plate tectonics?   Wink 

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Re: Iceland - recent eruption
Reply #1 - Aug 29th, 2014 at 4:54pm
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I also have been noticing a lot more activity around the world. Hope it shakes more gold out for me to find
  
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