XXXII. On the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Trevelyan, W. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1823
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Faroe Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800031021; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800031021

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°.