Global Warming - Iceland

Guardian UK: Climate change is lifting Iceland – and it could mean more volcanic eruptions - Land moving upward faster than researchers expected at 1.4in every year, allowing ‘hot potato’ rocks to rise

The entire chain reaction of melting ice caps, rising earth surface and volcanic activity is still not entirely understood, Bennett said. But as the surface of the earth rises, so do rocks at depth, released from the pressure of the ice.