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Icelandic Geology
Your mission is …
-To put the pictures and captions you’ve been
given onto the map where you think they go.
-Write a paragraph explaining how Iceland was
formed.
-If you can (this bit is hard!), write down what you
think Iceland will be like in 1 million years.
Ice caps
Rocks younger than 0.7 million years old
Rocks 0.7-3.1 million years old
Rocks older than 3.1 million years old
Active and dormant volcanoes
Captions
• Fumaroles (an opening in the Earth’s surface
that emits steam and other gases)
• Spreading Ridge (where two chunks of the Earth
are moving apart allowing new rocks to come to
the surface)
• Oldest rocks
• Youngest rocks
• Active Volcanoes
• Dormant Volcanoes
• Boiling mud pot (sort of fumarole or hot spring)
• Fissures (a volcanic vent that is not explosive)
Fumarole
Mud pot
Table mountains made up of
layers of lava flows.
Newest rocks covered in
sulphurous deposits.
Seismograph showing an
earthquake that has just happened
Reykjavik-Capital City
Active volcano
Primary coloniser