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Flashcards by GingerBread8, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by GingerBread8
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Where is Iceland? | Northern Hemisphere, SE of Greenland, NW of the UK |
| What is a hotspot? | The top of a mantle plume, where magma from the mantle is forced upwards through the lithosphere. |
| What are layers of Strata? | Layers of hardened ash and lava |
| Altitude of Eyjafjallajokull | 1600m |
| Crater | 3-4km in diameter on its Northern side |
| What feature does the volcano have? | A caldera |
| It has many outlet glaciers | The volcano is glacial covered |
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