Iceland is one of the most active volcanic areas on the planet. Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley, with lava fields and cones.

Iceland, in the northern Atlantic Ocean between ... At first, it was probably just a cleft in the Earth like today’s Rift Valley in Africa. It slowly grew both to the north and south.

Iceland is one of the most active volcanic areas on the planet. Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley, with lava fields and cones. According ...

Iceland is one of the most active volcanic areas on the planet. Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley, with lava fields and cones. The ...

Photograph by Jonathan Stokes Ingimundur drops me off at the entrance to Thingvellir National Park and I walk through what’s one of Iceland’s most striking landscapes: a rift valley between ...

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND—Snorri Sturlusson is the first ... Plus, nowhere else other than the Great Rift Valley in Africa is seafloor spreading visible on land, says Richard Hey of the University ...

Iceland sits smack dab on the front lines of ... The Ridge includes a deep rift valley that runs along its axis, from which magma from Earth's roiling mantle, or the slab of material just below ...

Iceland straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where ... 14 earthquake swarms and three eruptions occurred along an 80km section of a rift valley in Afar, northern Ethiopia. As at all oceanic ridges ...

The rift valley between these two continental plates ... Although all of this tectonic action happens way down below the ocean, Iceland is one of the few places where it breaks above sea level ...

director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavik University. "Kenya has got a really good resource and that's the Rift Valley. You've got this [incredible] heat that's so near the surface." ...