China has little environmental restrictions on industries making them extremely profitable at the expense of the environment, that's one of the reasons why China is one of the fastest-growing economies
The basic theory of plate tectonics is that along seafloor spreading zones, the continents are separating from one another. As they spread apart, magma comes to the surface and becomes new continental crust. As the tectonic plates move away from spreading zones, they collide with one another.
"<span>What contributed to the formation of the majority of Iceland?"
Lava is the answer, I believe.</span>
Answer: "the Earth's mantle" .
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The asthenosphere "floats" on the "mantle" [of the interior] Earth.
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