21. Iceland ( ) is a European island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . 22. The Walvis Ridge should then have developed as a result of these periodic stress releases along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . 23. The stress that causes the earthquakes is generally considered to be derived from present-day rifting at the Mid-Atlantic ridge . 24. The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . 25. The island of Iceland is part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , straddling the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate. 26. The waters of the Azores are unusually deep because the archipelago is a mountainous arm of the mid-Atlantic ridge . 27. Anomalies on the Mid Atlantic Ridge have been shown to relate to interactions with the hotspot beneath the Azores. 28. Deep ocean basins are area where new crust has been created by sea-floor spread, as along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . 29. As part of his doctoral work under Jerry van Andel, he analyzed samples of basaltic rock from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . 30. When the last of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is subducted beneath the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean is predicted to close rapidly.
