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The current North American-Eurasian plate boundary on Iceland's northern insular margin is defined. Overlapping rift zones and en echelon post-glacial volcanic eruptions oblique to the apparent transform direction of the Tjornes Fracture Zone suggest that the fault is in a transient deformational stage.
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McMaster, R., Schilling, JG. & Pinet, P. Plate boundary within Tjörnes Fracture Zone on northern Iceland's insular margin. Nature 269, 663–668 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/269663a0
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