An curved arrow pointing right. A volcano erupted in Iceland's most densely populated area on December 18. It is the largest eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021. More from News A ...

when an enormous mantle plume beneath the South Atlantic's mid-ocean ridge caused a burst of intense volcanism. The resulting rise "started life as a Cretaceous version of Iceland" closer to the ...

In Iceland, they're simply a natural part of ... Second of all, this part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the site of a mantle plume and a hot spot, similar to Hawaii. A mantle plume is a narrow ...

h) The uplift of the Iceland mantle plume since the Miocene led to uplift of the British Islands and Norwegian into land, basically forming the present structural framework of the North Sea Basin.