Early opening history of the North Atlantic - I. Structure and origin of the Faeroe-Shetland Escarpment.

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Smythe, D.K., Chalmers, J.A., Skuce, A.G., Dobinson, A., Mould, A.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 1983
• Subjects: Norwegian Sea; Rockall Trough; Rosemary Bank; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/213899/

Marine geophysical surveys show that the Escarpment is the buried feather-edge of a thick pile of flood basalts of early Eocene age, overlying a thinner, more widespread layer of basalts of late Palaeocene age. The Escarpment does not, therefore, define the continent—ocean boundary in the southern N...