November 2022 Program Information
November 2022 Program
Marcia Morris went to Iceland the last week of August and the first week of September with GeoWorld Travel group.
There were 18 people from the UK, Australia, and America who went to study the geology of the country.
She presented an awesome travelogue that she prepared from pictures she took on the trip. The video included photos of birds, plants, insects and geological formations.
The group used part of the Ring Road, which is an 850 mile route along the coastal areas.
They visited Thingvellir National Park, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Jökulsárlón Lake; the deepest in Iceland, the Krafla geothermal plant (85% of the country’s electricity is from these plants), and saw many lava fields, mud pots and geysers to name a few features.
The southern part of the country is actually growing by 3 cm a year due to lava flows. Since the weather is brutal, it is hard for plants to grow (it takes 25 years for a tree to grow one foot), but she had pictures of many types.
Fresh water is abundant, and 96% of potable water is straight from the ground. Iceland is on the border of the North American & Eurasian geologic plates where they are spreading apart very slowly. Around 370,000 people live in the country.
A gallery of stunning pictures by the Icelandic Travel Blog can be found here.
Thanks, Marcia, for our virtual field trip!!