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THE flood basalts of the Faeroes have a total thickness of nearly 3 km (refs. 1 and 2). For a long time it has been generally accepted among geologists that these basalts were erupted during the early Tertiary (see, for example, ref. 3).
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RASMUSSEN, J., NOE-NYGAARD, A. New Data on the Geological Age of the Faeroes. Nature 209, 1229–1230 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091229a0
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