Where on Google Earth #533
On to the next one. Please don't think Andrew and I are conspiring. ;-) The search was relatively easy considering the line pattern of the rocks.
The next one does't look that dry and it isn't. I believe that the geological significance of my last contest was that significant. I know that the following is more significant. Good luck on your search!
Þingvellir National Park, Iceland.
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The continental drift between the North American and Eurasian Plates can be clearly seen in the cracks or faults which traverse the region, the largest one, Almannagjá, being a veritable canyon. This also causes the often measurable earthquakes in the area.
Some of the rifts are full of clear water. One, Nikulásargjá, is better known as Peningagjá (lit. "coin fissure"), as its bottom is littered with coins. After being bridged in 1907 for the occasion of the visit of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, visitors began to throw coins in the fissure, a tradition based on European legends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eingvellir
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