The Faeroe Islands?

John Mayer jdmayer at moscow.com
Wed Aug 23 15:00:37 CEST 1995


>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 20:29:01 PDT
>From: Arthur_de_Wolf <wolfman at pi.net>
>To: Disney-Comics at Minsk.Docs.UU.SE
>Subject: The Faeroe Islands?
>
>The Faeroe Islands? (Danish Faeroerne or F{roerne). Isn't that an island 
>group, which is an integral part of Denmark in the North Atlantic Ocean, 
>about midway between the Shetland Islands and Iceland, formed by a sub-
>marine eruption of basalt during the Tertiary period, in which a "coal 
>formation" of fireclay, sandstone, shale and brown coal makes up the 
>secondary stratum which was afterwards topped by dolerite?

Yes, but American geologists now refer to nonporphyritic phaneritic
(but not typically gabbroic) igneous rock as diabase rather than
dolerite :-)
John Mayer
Moscow, Idaho
jdmayer at moscow.com




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