Iceland: Land of Ghastly Catastrophes

Imagine yourself in Iceland, the island in the Atlantic, not some ice planet in the Hoth system. Atlantic? It's an ocean between Europe and North America. Ocean? That would be a large body of water... Oh never mind.

There is a place on earth called Iceland, and it is a place of unmitigated horror. For example:

If Scando Rock wasn't bad enough, here's what their President looks like when he gets up in the morning:

 

The only thing keeping these people from carrying us off in their long boats and selling us in the flesh markets of Byzantium is the fact that their nasty little island is smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic spreading center. According to The Institute of Terrifying Geologic Possibilities, the publisher of The Journal of Terrifying Geologic Possibilities: the publication doing for geology what global warming did for climatology, the spreading center is where the European Plate and the North American Plate are being torn apart.

 

Yeah the very ground under their feet is opening up, and they’re starring into an abyss of molten lava.

Magma, its what's for breakfast in Iceland!

 

 

If these guys had invested a little in geological research grants, instead of looting monasteries in the Hebrides and undermining the Anglo Saxon kingdom  of Wessex, maybe they’d know better than to settle in an active volcanic area!

 

Don’t stick your head in the sand like Ostriches, Cassowaries and Icelanders, support generous funding and stipends for every geologist that ever picked up a rock, or this might be in you future and backyard:

Greetings from Iceland

The Journal of Terrifying Geologic Possibilities: the publication doing for geology what global warming did for climatology.