Gunnar Þór Gunnarsson
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Ice age XXV
Ice ages and Iceland's age. Iceland is only 18 million years old. Which is very young compared to hundreds of million year old continents on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. The first 15 million years Iceland was a warm place hosting plenty of lifeforms including about 140 types of trees. Trees like palm trees and the sort you would normally find in a tropical forest. But things change. The last three million years there have been between 20 and 25 Ice ages on our little blue planet. When an Ice age occurs the ice on the polar areas grows dramatically towards the equator. Last Ice cap
Northern Lights Invasion and Defense
The northern lights attack About a day after a Volcanic eruption on the Sun tiny particles reach the Earth. If it wasn't for the Earth's great Magnetic-field these particles would hit the surface and have dramatic effect on life itself. The magnetic field sways these particles and makes them go around Earth and while doing so they still hit a big part of the Atmosphere, namely the Oxygen and Nitrogen atoms. The Electrons around these tiny atoms bounce and release power in the form of light. The color of the light visible from Earth depends on the power and type of atoms. We call these the N
Black, brown or white!
The dead that was a live and the dead that never lived This is the main difference between the black sand beaches and the brown ones. Much of the brown sand beaches are made up of dead organism that have been crushed by the ocean for thousands or millions of years. Mostly made of corals and shellfish. Of course this doesn't apply to all brown sand, the sand dunes of Libya for example are made up of granular rocks that are mostly made up of silica in the form of quartz. The black sand on the other hand is made up from volcanic rocks or ash and has therefore never been inside a living orga
Don't call them ponies! :-)
The Vikings brought with them domesticated animals to Iceland, including the Icelandic horse. The horse came with them from Norway, but it's origins go all the way back to Mongolia. The Icelandic horse is not big but it is very strong and exceptionally sturdy, healthy and tolerates bad weather. Due to it's friendliness and curiousity it has become very popular and there are now more Icelandic horses around the world than in Iceland. There are strict rules for importing horses and those in Iceland who own a horse and take part in the world championship for the Icelandic horse, o
A bit about Snorri!
Snorri's geothermal pool. Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as a lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian
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