The mid-atlantic ridge, viewable at the surface in the Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. The North-American plate, on the right, moves away from the Eurasian plate (about 5 miles to the left) at a rate of about an inch a year, leaving a subsided 'no-mans-land' in the middle. Its quite dramatic, but less so with a perfectly white sky...
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