Friday, February 3, 2012

Plate Tectonics Vacation Snaps

I don't really have any specific plate tectonics photos, but these two can be related to plate tectonics.
This photo was taken in Iceland. Iceland is located on a hotspot and on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. I went on a research cruise that departed from Reykjavik. You can go see the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as a surface feature in Iceland. Unfortunately I was not able to do that as we had only one night in Iceland before the cruise left.


This photo was taken in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This park is part of the Appalachian Mountain chain, which formed when the supercontinent of Pangaea was assembling in the Paleozoic.

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