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Wildflowers peek out amid a vast jumble of moss-covered rocks near Iceland’s Vatnajökull Glacier. This view is deceptively peaceful, as Iceland is perched above the volatile Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates pull apart, creating an extensive and active volcano zone. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Iceland’s Trial by Fire," May 1997, National Geographic magazine) Buy a print of this photo. Photograph by Steve Winter