Controlling Mechanisms
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Water from the river Hvita flows down a lava hillside in West Iceland (Iceland on the Web)
Volcanic landforms in Iceland are found to be controlled by the geomorphologic properties of plate tectonics, which control the active volcanoes that created the island, and by the climate mechanism which influence all land forming proceses.