In her Iceland Project (1992), Magdalena Jetelová deals for the first time with the “dimensions” of the Earth and its geological development. Iceland lies directly on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mountain range that extends for approximately 15,000 kilometres along the ocean floor and forms a dividing line between the American continent on the one hand and Europe and Africa on the other. This ridge is part of a system of dykes that encircles the Earth over a length of almost 70,000 kilometres and enables the movement of the continental crust.

The theory of continental drift was formulated in 1912 by the meteorologist Ernst Otto Wegener. In the 1960s, his theory was confirmed, making it possible to describe why and how continents actually form: tectonic stresses create fissures into which hot lava penetrates, pushing the continents apart. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge also consists of such fissures.
They can only be seen on land in the north of Iceland as a deep fissure called “Ingvellir”—or rather, felt—which reaches down into the Earth’s crust and is still part of the volcanic zone today. The fissures are not always completely exposed, as they are often covered with scree or filled with water; in many places, geysers and hot springs erupt