Islandija - ugnies ir ledo šalis
Iceland is the place where one can see a great variety of active geological processes: how the tectonic plates move, a new crust grows, volcanoes erupt, magmatic rocks form, ice sheets form and melt leaving specific relief forms on the land surface, as well as the fissures form, and earthquakes take...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Lithuanian English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://lsmu.lvb.lt/LSMU:ELABAPDB5830178&prefLang=en_US |
| Summary: | Iceland is the place where one can see a great variety of active geological processes: how the tectonic plates move, a new crust grows, volcanoes erupt, magmatic rocks form, ice sheets form and melt leaving specific relief forms on the land surface, as well as the fissures form, and earthquakes take place. Here, one can imagine a time travel into the geological past of Lithuania. Similar active geological processes had created the Earth crust in Lithuania's area billions of years ago, and glaciers were the architects of our land's surface. Lithuania also feels earthquakes sometimes and at a lower scale, and landslides take place here. We, in a similar way as the Icelanders, also started using geothermal energy. Moreover, there are some present-day links between Lithuania and Iceland. The expanding Atlantic Ocean presses Lithuania situated at the plate margin and increases the strains which might blow off as an earthquake. Maybe, Lithuanian Quaternary layers contain ashes of Saksunarvatn that erupted 10 thousand years ago-such ashes are detected in Germany and Denmark. Not only geological ties link us to this Nordic country, we can profit many things from Icelanders. |
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