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2015 Geological Tour of Iceland

We joined geologist Doris Sloan and Icelandic tour guide Elisabet Brand for our first visit to Iceland in August 2015. The tour was organized for the Oakland Museum of California's Natural Sciences Guild. We were rewarded by a grand dose of volcanos, glaciers, and the rift zone between the North American plate and the Eurasian plate. Scenic consequences of these forces are waterfalls, basalt columns, outwash plains, fjords, and a permanent understanding that our planet is always in flux.
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Love in the rift zone. 2015_08_07_Iceland _211.jpg
Love in the rift zone. 2015_08_07_Iceland _211.jpg		 Viking ship sculpture on the shore in Reykjavik. 2015_08_07_Iceland _257.jpg
Viking ship sculpture on the shore in Reykjavik. 2015_08_07_Iceland _257.jpg		 First view of Harpa, the concert hall that was finished despite the financial crash of 2008. 2015_08_07_Iceland _270.jpg
First view of Harpa, the concert hall that was finished despite the financial crash of 2008. 2015_08_07_Iceland _270.jpg		 Inside Harpa. 2015_08_08_Iceland _378.jpg
Inside Harpa. 2015_08_08_Iceland _378.jpg
Perlan has great views over Reykjavik, and is built on geothermal hot water storage tanks. 2015_08_08_Iceland _333.jpg
Perlan has great views over Reykjavik, and is built on geothermal hot water storage tanks. 2015_08_08_Iceland _333.jpg		 We arrived in time for Gay Pride Festival. 2015_08_08_Iceland _367.jpg
We arrived in time for Gay Pride Festival. 2015_08_08_Iceland _367.jpg		 Knitting is very popular, but this is ont only sweatered bicycle we saw. 2015_08_08_Iceland _445.jpg
Knitting is very popular, but this is ont only sweatered bicycle we saw. 2015_08_08_Iceland _445.jpg		 Þingvellir National Park, where Iceland's government began in 970. 2015_08_09_Iceland _468.jpg
Þingvellir National Park, where Iceland's government began in 970. 2015_08_09_Iceland _468.jpg
A rift in Þingvellir. 2015_08_09_Iceland _524.jpg
A rift in Þingvellir. 2015_08_09_Iceland _524.jpg		 We had lunch in Friðheimar's geothermally warmed cucumber greenhouse. 2015_08_09_Iceland _544.jpg
We had lunch in Friðheimar's geothermally warmed cucumber greenhouse. 2015_08_09_Iceland _544.jpg		 The wind was blowing spume from Gullfoss, a waterfall saved from conversion to a hydropower plant. 2015_08_09_Iceland _608.jpg
The wind was blowing spume from Gullfoss, a waterfall saved from conversion to a hydropower plant. 2015_08_09_Iceland _608.jpg		 Harbor at Heimaey in Vestmannaeyjar (Westmann Isles). 2015_08_09_Iceland _683.jpg
Harbor at Heimaey in Vestmannaeyjar (Westmann Isles). 2015_08_09_Iceland _683.jpg
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