XXXII. On the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands
In compliance with your request, I send you a few notes of some of the principal geological facts I observed in Faroe, which may serve as a supplement to Sir George Mackenzie's and Mr Allan's accounts of these islands, which, as far as they extend, I found perfectly correct. The Coal in Su...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0080456800031021 2024-03-03T08:44:15+00:00 XXXII. On the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands Trevelyan, W. C. 1823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800031021 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800031021 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh volume 9, issue 2, page 461-464 ISSN 0080-4568 2053-5945 General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science journal-article 1823 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800031021 2024-02-08T08:30:28Z In compliance with your request, I send you a few notes of some of the principal geological facts I observed in Faroe, which may serve as a supplement to Sir George Mackenzie's and Mr Allan's accounts of these islands, which, as far as they extend, I found perfectly correct. The Coal in Suderoe, which was not visited by them, is situated between two thick beds of hard clay, resembling the Clunch-clay of this country; to which succeed beds of trap. In some parts, pieces of petrified wood are very abundant in the superincumbent clay, and also nodules of ironstone; and in the coal, pieces of wood resembling charcoal. The coal has the same degree of inclination as the other beds, dipping towards the south-east, at an angle of about 4° or 5°; being the same as the dip in the other islands, excepting in part of Myggenæas, where it is much greater, being near 45°. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Cambridge University Press Faroe Islands Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 9 2 461 464 |
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In compliance with your request, I send you a few notes of some of the principal geological facts I observed in Faroe, which may serve as a supplement to Sir George Mackenzie's and Mr Allan's accounts of these islands, which, as far as they extend, I found perfectly correct. The Coal in Suderoe, which was not visited by them, is situated between two thick beds of hard clay, resembling the Clunch-clay of this country; to which succeed beds of trap. In some parts, pieces of petrified wood are very abundant in the superincumbent clay, and also nodules of ironstone; and in the coal, pieces of wood resembling charcoal. The coal has the same degree of inclination as the other beds, dipping towards the south-east, at an angle of about 4° or 5°; being the same as the dip in the other islands, excepting in part of Myggenæas, where it is much greater, being near 45°. |
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