Landscape and Geology
Iceland's lunar landscapes are one of the country's prime attractions, but its apparently ancient facade is in fact an illusion. Geologically, Iceland is actually very young, with its oldest rocks dating back a mere 14 million years, to a time in the Earth's history when the dinosaurs had long gone and protohumans were yet to evolve. The reason that its landscape appears so raw is because Iceland sits on a geological hot spot on the mid-Atlantic ridge, where the Eurasian and American continental plates are drifting east and west apart from each other. As they do so, Iceland is continually tearing down the middle, allowing magma (molten rock from the Earth's core) to well upwards towards the surface. When the surface cracks - in an earthquake, for instance - magma erupts through as a volcano, and when groundwater seeps down to magma levels it boils and returns to the surface as a thermal spring , or even a geyser . Almost all such geological activity in Iceland is located over this mid-Atlantic tear, which stretches northeast in a wide band across the country, taking in everything between the Reykjanes Peninsula, the Westman Islands and Myrdalsjokull in the southwest, and Myvatn and porshofn in the northeast. As this band is where volcanoes are creating all the new land, it's here that you'll find the most recent rocks; conversely, the oldest, most geologically stable parts of the country are around Isafjordur in the Westfjords and Gerpir cliffs in Iceland's extreme east. At the same time, Iceland is close enough to the Arctic for its higher mountains and plateaus - most of which are in the south of the country - to have become permanently ice capped, forming extensive glaciers . Melt from around their edges contributes to many of Iceland's rivers , which are further fed by underground springs - also the source of the country's largest lakes . Cold, dry air formed by sub-zero temperatures over the ice caps is also responsible for some of the weird atmospheric effects you'll encounter here, while others have an extraterrestrial origin.
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