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Surtsey.
Where Is The Island Of Surtsey?
5.Surtsey eruption
Description
Lying to the south of Iceland, this volcanic island was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2008. Surtsey was born on November 14th, 1963, as its volcanic top poked out of the Greenland Sea. It finally attained a height of 570 feet above the sea's surface after three years of eruption.
The volcanic island has since stopped growing out of the sea. In fact, Surtsey has lost about 3.3 feet in height. It had initially continued to grow in stature at a rate of 8 inches a year. However, by the 1990s, it had slowed down to about 0.4 to 0.8 inches annually.
Surtsey has a sandy soil, and much of the island is covered with hardened lava flows.
Surtsey volcano last eruption4. History of Surtsey
The island's name was taken from that of the Norse mythological giant Surtr. Surtsey was an unexpected occurrence that began a few days before it breached sea level. It began as an undersea volcanic eruption that pushed the beginnings of a volcanic island upwards to the surface of the Greenland Sea, south of Iceland.
Within its first few months of formation, botanists, biol
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