It is also said that he thought that the rectangular chambers looked like the cells in some monasteries. Physically cells always have a boundary membrane, a little like a polythene bag encloses contents within it. Inside the space limited by the membrane there is an remarkable chemical processing unit.
Iceland is a place where, because of large amounts of lava extrusion, the ocean floor is, in effect, above sea level, making it easy to study ocean floor spreading. You can affix strain gauges on many parts of the spreading ridge. 6 people found this useful.
Iceland is the largest island on the ridge because of the additional volcanism caused by the hot spot under the country, which moves slowly towards the northwest across it. These unique circumstances on the ridge probably are the reason for the countryâs existence, because the tectonic movement of the plates and the related volcanism would not have sufficed. The country probably would have looked very differently if the hot spot were the sole reason for its creation, probably something similar to Hawaii.