Iceland is a volcanic hotspot, being located on a divergent tectonic boundary where North American and Eurasian plates deep beneath the Earth's surface are moving apart. The island is home to ...

It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and ...

Iceland, often referred to as the "Land ... Tectonic movements and hotspot activity The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a divergent tectonic plate boundary, which means that the plates are moving away ...