if you walk across the mid atlantic ridge in iceland you are traveling between

Iceland is home to the largest portion of exposed Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the world, and one of the only places where you can stand upon it on dry land.

Jul 01,  · This video is about The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland(R)

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge has a major impact on Iceland, not only because the ridge divides the country in two, but also because the ridge is 

The Bridge between Continents (or Midlina) is a 15 meter (50 ft) footbridge in the Reykjanes Peninsula spanning a gaping rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.

Cross continents at Sandvík. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge that crosses Iceland is an impressive rift between active continental plates. The ridge is the meeting-point of the North American and

Sep 30,  · Iceland –where you can walk a mid-Atlantic rift –and some other geology photos. While Iceland hosts an amazing variety of awesome landscapes, what stands out to me most

The rate of spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) per year, or 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) in a million years. As you can see on the maps above the earthquakes occur directly along the boundary between the plates. The map to the right shows earthquakes that have been recorded in the last 48 hours.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is known as a mid-ocean ridge, an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics. It is the result of a convergent plate boundary that runs from 87° N - about 333 km (207 mi) south of the North Pole - to 54 °S, just north of the coast of Antarctica.

Iceland is divided by the Mid-Atlantic Rift; some parts of it, such as the Westfjords and Reyjavík, are on the North American tectonic plate, while others, such as Vatnajökull glacier and the East

Sep 02,  · The Silfra lava fissure at Thingvellir National Park is a spectacular underwater world where you can snorkel over the gorge which separates the Eurasian and

Where is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge above sea level? The average depth to the crest (top) of the ridge is 2500 m, but it rises above sea-level in Iceland and is more than 4000 m deep in the Cayman Trough. Mid-ocean ridges are geologically important because they occur along the kind of plate boundary where new ocean floor is created as the plates spread apart.