Geography

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* See also Sea Mount and Mt Ryan
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* See also Geothermal_Power
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Rapture is West Off Iceland ( Note it is not near Shipping Lanes )
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Seabed and Sides/crater of a Sea Mount ( Rapture sits on Volcanic rock )
Location of Rapture - ie- higher ( closer to the surface ) than the basic depth in that part of the Ocean. Far Shallower than various game are implies ... We should NOT have absurd technically impossible city depth (even for today)
Area around Mid-Atlantic Ridge is relatively new (in geological time).
General lack of resources ( the depth - no light - little Sea Life ), general lack of concentrated minerals in volcanic rock. 
Icebergs - which flow past from the Arctic North. The crater edge could protect the building tops of a rather shallow Depth for Rapture (only ~600 feet).
Isolation - Off the main Shipping Lanes ( most sea traffic's pathing was between Europe and America, and went bye much further to the South - hundreds of miles )
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Tectonic Plates, Mid-Atlantic ridge spreading and 'Seamount' formation and for Iceland.
 
Rapture is located on an aberration left by the expansion of the spreading tectonic plates in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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== 63° 2' N, 29° 55' W ==
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The area near Iceland gets many Earthquakes, which would affect Rapture.
It may have served to 'settle' the crater sides and seabed of the Seamount Rapture is located within.
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Illustrates a spreading action between Tectonic Plates which formed Iceland, and supposedly cause the Sea Mount where Rapture is situated to exist a few hundred miles away in the Ocean ( where molten rock wells up between the Tectonic Plates ).
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Tectonic plate which causes the volcanic activity that raised the Sea Mount (undersea volcano) which Rapture is built within ( at a far shallower depth than the ocean seabed which is more than 3000 feet deep at this point in the Atlantic Ocean ).
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