| Computer Code: |
FAROP |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Late Paleocene (GPL)
— Early Eocene (GEE) |
| Lithological Description: |
Basalt. The basalts are all tholeiitic, and display mid-ocean ridge (MORB) character in the upper part. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
Northwestern parts of the Faroe-Shetland Basin, which marks the southeastern limit of an extensive pile of basaltic lavas, up to 5 km or more in thickness, that originated in the region of the present-day Faroe Islands. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Faroe Plateau Lava Group
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Knox, R W O'B, Holloway, S, Kirby, G A and Baily, H E. 1997. Stratigraphic nomenclature of the UK North West Margin. 2. Early Paleogene lithostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy. British Geological Survey, Nottingham. |
| Ritchie, J D, and Hitchen, K. 1996. Early Paleogene offshore igneous activity to the northwest of the UK and its relationship to the North Atlantic Igneous Province. In: Knox, R W O'b, Corfield, R M, and Dunay, R E (eds.) Correlation of the early Paleogene in northwest Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 101, 63-78. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
