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XXXII. On the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

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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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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1823

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