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Show U Iceland Earth Fissures Indications that Iceland is splitting split-ting in two have been found in fissures fis-sures or cracks stretching from northeast to southeast of the island and all lying in the same direction. Reykjavik has received reports that near those cracks, which reach far down into the earth, is a row of volcanoes from which erupt fields of I lava larger than any oilier of sim- liar type in the world. Scientists will measure the distance between mountain peaks on each side of the crack to determine if they are moving mov-ing apart. If they are it will be evidence of Alfred Wegener's theory the-ory of continental drift, that America Ameri-ca has been slipping away from Europe Eu-rope for millions of years and that the Atlantic was thus formed between be-tween them. |