Continental drift
A crevice at the top of Mt. Þorbjörn (250 m) in SW-Iceland. The mount, formed in a subglacial volcanic eruption, is scarred by crevices, formed by the splitting of the Eurasian and North-American tectonic plates, which pulls Iceland apart, on average by some 2 cm a year. The canyon above is one of a series of such earth-splitting crevices throughout the Reykjanes peninsula, but without too much exaggeration it could be said that North-America is on the left and Eurasia on the right. And in between? That is where new land is being born, a geological no-man's land.
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