Bridge between Europe and North America on Reykjanes Peninsula. ELSEVIER EPSL Earth and Planetary Science Letters 121 (1994) 647-654 Express Letter Hydrothermal activity on the Reykjanes Ridge: the Steinaholl vent-field at 636' N C.R. Capt. During 1992, a scientific team comprised of five US and ten Russian scientists mobilized the twin, deep diving Russian submersibles to study the spreading axis of the Reykjanes Ridge. German a, J. Briem b, C. Chin ', M. Danielsen b, S. Holland d, R. James d, A. Jonsdottir b, E. Ludford e, C. Moser c, J. dlafsson b, M.R. Today, Reykjanes Ridge in Iceland is the only place where you can stand on the ridge on dry land, making it something of a geologist’s paradise. Bart Mancuso : Yeah, yeah, Red Route 1. Bart Mancuso : Yeah, yeah, Red Route 1. As part ofa multi-institutional response to this swarm, the Naval ResearchLaboratory arranged for a P3 Orion Aircraft to … Unique twin ash plumes from Sinabung in Indonesia, erupting … They describe how the Vikings first settled Iceland in 874 AD or 870 AD (the two books don’t quite agree). Fortunately, the Soviets mapped the Reykjanes Ridge for us already, we just have to get to Thor's Twins The tectonic structure of Iceland is characterized by various seismically and volcanically active centers. Journal of Geodynamics 43 (2007) 73–86 The Reykjanes Ridge between 63 10 N and Iceland ´ Armann H¨oskuldsson a,∗ , Richard Hey b , Einar Kjartansson c , Gunnar B. Guðmundsson d aInstitute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjav´ık, Iceland b Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean & Earth Science and Technology. 114. Sir, remember the dispatch we got about Russian sub skippers running the Reykjanes Ridge at high speeds because they had hyper-accurate surveys of the underwater canyons? Capt. According to the continental drift theory the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates are continuously drifting apart with great forces under the gaping rifts. Let’s first look at the early Icelanders who themselves experienced Eldgja. The lava-scarred Reykjanes peninsula lies on one of the world's major plate boundaries, the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Palmer e, M.D. The North American and Eurasian plates are moving steadily away from one another at a rate of a bout 2.5 centimetres per year and this movement can trigger volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. The Reykjanes Ridge separates the North American and Eurasian plates in the north Atlantic south of Iceland ().It is the longest oblique spreading ridge in the world, extending about 900 km from Iceland to the Bight transform fault near 56.5°N.The Bight transform is a 15 km left-stepping displacement of the ridge axis along 092°, with an associated fracture zone extending into at least 36 … Sir, remember the dispatch we got about Russian sub skippers running the Reykjanes Ridge at high speeds because they had hyper-accurate surveys of the underwater canyons? On 21 May 1989, a major earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes Ridge at59°44′ N, 29°32′ W at a water depth of about 1000 m andabout 500 km southwest of Iceland was detected on both the WorldwideStandard Seismic Network (WWSSN) and Icelandic seismic networks. Iceland, Partial Submission (Ægir Basin and Reykjanes Ridge) Executive Summary, 29 April 2009, Section 5.2, at the CLCS Web site, supra note 2. According to Iceland, the Reykjanes Ridge is “directly connected to the Icelandic land mass, morphologically, tectonically and with respect to geological history and crustal characteristics.” 115. The oldest civil records of Iceland are in the Book of Settlement and the Book of the Icelanders, both written down during the 12 th century, mostly by the same person.