The contemporary Evangelical debate over "Flood Geology" centers upon the legitimacy of extrapolating present-day rates of geologic processes into the past, and using this extrapolation to challenge the possibility of a significant portion of the earth's sediments and fossils being the result of the Noahic Flood of Genesis 7-9. The problem is complicated by the impossibility of repeatable experiments or present-day observations on a flood that is thought to be a singularity, of world-wide extent, and of over one year in duration. The birth, in 1963, of the volcanic island, Surtsey, off the coast of Iceland, may cast some light on the problem. Since Surtsey's birth was both unique and spectacular, most works on geology make mention of it. Only two Icelandic scientists write about what may be the most significant geological factor of all - the development of a mature landscape in days or weeks on Surtsey that would normally take thousands of years elsewhere. Since the two geologic forces operating on Surtsey - volcanism and marine action - are also two of the forces thought to be in operation during the Noahic Flood, Surtsey may be as close as one can come in the natural world to a micro-laboratory for "Flood Geology."