Iceland halts air travel following volcanic eruption.....*long-dormant 6,000 yrs.

DW ^ | 3/19/2021 | DW

[caww]

Well it didn’t take long to check out Iceland....frankly nothing there interesting, very expensive to live there. It like sits on volcanic rock so no farmland to speak of. Just looks and sounds quite boring.

[Bikkuri]

If you had 3 months to explore the tiny island(s) of Japan, you wouldn’t have enough time to see 10% of it.. ;)

[caww]

Japans a horse of a whole nother color.

[Texas Eagle]

Weird how all the continents were on one side of the earth. What was on the other side?

[IncPen]

Weird how all the continents were on one side of the earth. What was on the other side?

Rosie O’Donnell

[Texas Eagle]

Ba-da-boomp, tsssh.

[Texas Eagle]

Rosie O'Donnell.

Hmmmm. That would explain The Great Flood.

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

"Iceland's Minister of Justice Aslaug Arna Sigurbjornsdottir shared an image of the eruption..."

Man, just try getting that moniker on the back of a sports jersey!

S+15, or Sig.

Nah, the latter would be too pro gun.

[Organic Panic]

Obviously glob warming. Oops. I mean climate change.

[Doc91678]

Must be the Aussie monsoon season again... Wait until the dry season and get back to me...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47100700
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/australian-monsoon-rains-cause-once-in-a-century-floods-1.3780335

[Paul R.]

Great post. Questions and thoughts:

So... Did the plates separating allow the mid-Atlantic upwelling, or did the upwelling cause the super-continent (Pangea) to break up, then subsequently push the continental plates apart?

India certainly has done some real scooting around.

Why was all the land concentrated on one side of the earth for a long time?

It would be great if the animation showing Pangea’s breakup and subsequent continental drift was slower and had a geologic “clock” running with it. And, maybe a one frame flash at the end could denote humans’ time on this rock.

[Paul R.]

Ocean.

[ETL]

Great post. Questions and thoughts:
So... Did the plates separating allow the mid-Atlantic upwelling, or did the upwelling cause the super-continent (Pangea) to break up, then subsequently push the continental plates apart?

I believe the general consensuses is now that the upwelling caused the initial tectonic separation, but that its continuation at least in part has more to do with the plates diving down into the mantle at the other end of the plates. In other words, the down-going slab is acting to pull the plate away from the spreading center at the opposite end of the plate.

India certainly has done some real scooting around.

Yes, it moved relatively quickly (in plate tectonic terms) for a few millions years, prior to its slow-motion collision with Asia. That collision produced the Himalayan mountains. They continue to rise to this day.

Why was all the land concentrated on one side of the earth for a long time?

In geologic time, they actually weren't together for that long at time at all. Super-continents are inherently unstable because they act as 'heat blankets', allowing the heat from the earth's interior to build up underneath and eventually poke holes in the landmass. The last supercontinent, Pangaea, finished completion around 250 million years ago when Africa collided with North and South America. It then began separating "only" about 50 million years later. That is not all that long a time in geologic terms.

It would be great if the animation showing Pangea’s breakup and subsequent continental drift was slower and had a geologic “clock” running with it. And, maybe a one frame flash at the end could denote humans’ time on this rock.

India slamming into Asia, creating the Himalayan mountains (~50 million years ago to present).

You can see India moving north at a relatively fast speed.

[Cuttnhorse]

Great images...thanks for posting!!

[gleeaikin]

The hot spot may be stationary, but the Hawaiin Islands are slowly moving northward.

[Reily]

Come to Iceland ! It’s going places !

[ETL]

Yes, the tectonic plate the Hawaiian islands are on (the Pacific Plate) is moving northward, over the stationary hot spot below it.

[dfwgator]

At least it won’t tip over.

[USAF1985]

True statement...2.5 months would be stuck in traffic in Tokyo. ;)

[SaveFerris]

A useful little idiot, who starved herself into a disease or some sort of medical condition.

Now a willing pawn for Leftists.

And applauded by the circus of clowns at the United Nations.

It would make a funny movie, were it not so real.