I just returned from Iceland, a bucket list trip for me and a Mecca for geologists. Iceland, in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Norway just south of the Arctic Circle, is unusual in ...

Iceland is the only inhabited island in the world where tectonic plates and ocean ridge are visible on land. This makes Iceland a real hotspot in geological context. It sits atop the Mid-Atlantic ...

The Reykjanes peninsula is known as a seismic hotspot, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office recording more than 4,700 earthquakes in the area over a six-day period. This intense seismic activity ...