The Faeroe Islands?

[John Mayer]

>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:00:37 -0700
>To: Disney-Comics at Minsk.Docs.UU.SE
>From: John Mayer <jdmayer at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: The Faeroe Islands?
>
>
>>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