Geology of The SRP: Comparison to Iceland

• Iceland is an above-ground portion of the mid-Atlantic spreading center, with much similarity to the Santa Rosa Plateau of 10 million years ago.
  Pix of an active spreading center:

  

  Pix of basalt lava flow:

  

  Pix of down-dropped block:

  

  Pix of en echelon faults at boundaries of spreading center:

  

http://tchester.org/srp/plants/communities/geo_1b.html Comments and feedback: Tom Chester Last update: 5 January 2007.

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