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Old 06-08-2012, 10:57   #1611
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Re: Today in pictures

Glad folks liked my pics of Iceland yesterday. Here's some more of that amazing landscape.

1 The Gullfoss waterfall disappearing
2 It ends up down here in this crack in the rocks
3 The rock face at the side of the chasm
4 Close up of the water as it disappears
5 The water does a 90degree turn to end up in the river below
6 Moving on to Thingvellir, the site of the original outdoor Icelandic parliament a thousand years ago. The rock outcrops provided good acoustics for the reading out of the laws.This is a place where two tectonic plates are pulling the Earth's surface aprt.
7 Close up of rock formation at Thingvellir
8 View across the area, the lines of rocks are where the plates are separating and creating new land in between
9 River and lake at Thingvellir
10 Patterns made in molten rock as it cools
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