Iceland is a relatively young country in the geological sense, being formed about 20 million years ago by a series of volcanic eruptions in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, but it is still growing from fresh volcanic eruptions.
Island je relativno mlada zemlja u geološkom smislu, formirana pre oko 20 miliona godina serijom vulkanski erupcija u Srednjoatlanskom grebenu, koja se još uvek uvećava putem novih vulkanskih erupcija.