Distribution of basalt boulders and ice rafted debris in the region of the Iceland-Faroe-Ridge (Fig. 6-12), supplement to: Wohlfeil, Kay (1982): Verbreitung, Herkunft und Bedeutung der Psephite des Seegebietes zwischen den Färöer und Island. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Reihe C Geologie und Geophysik, Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin, Stuttgart, C36, 31-56

• Main Author: Wohlfeil, Kay
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 1982
• Subjects: Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Basalt; Ice rafted debris; Sandstone; Carbonates; Claystone; Chert; Dredge; Gravity corer Kiel type; M20; M38; M54; Meteor 1964; Bill Baileys Bank; Kay; Färöer; glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.548073; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.548073

Psephitic particles in the region of the Iceland-Faeroe-Ridge have been transported and deposited by means of a complex interplay of glacier movements and drifting icebergs. The composition of the particle association is controlled by the sedimentation of basaltic rock particles derived from the ridge itself and, in addition to that and in southern parts of the ridge, from the Faeroe Islands, the Faeroe-Bank and the Bill Baileys-Bank. Besides, there are crystalline and sedimentary dropstones showing a very varied petrography and a wide range of particle sizes. Their percentage becomes greater as the distance from the ridge increases. The association of dropstones is relatively homogeneous in the region of the ridge and only at greater distances from the ridge it becomes more differentiated. Owing to their composition and distribution, as well as on the basis of characteristic fossils and rock types, the drop-stones are derived from Scandianvia and Great Britain. During periods of maximum glaciation, the Icland-Faeroe-Ridge, th eFaeroe-Bank and the Bill Baileys-Bank were under ice.