Geology of the Faeroe Islands (Pre-Quaternary)

Abstract

The present book is designed as an introduction to the geology of the Faeroe Islands and as an aid to the understanding of the geological map of the Faeroe Islands, which was recently published with an accompanying description in Danish by the Geological Survey of Denmark (Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse 1. Række Nr. 24. Beskrivelse til Geologisk Kort over Færøerne i malestok 1:50,000 ved Jóannes Rasmussen og Arne Noe-Nygaard. English Summary). The Danish account will be referred to hereafter as the Memoir. During the geological investigation of the Faeroe Islands it was attempted to produce a map showing a naturally delimited part of the North Atlantic basalt province at a scale larger than that normally used in an area of plateau basalts. This was possible because the area concerned was small and the rocks were well exposed.