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Biostratigraphy of Interbasaltic Coals from the Faeroe Islands

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Structure and Development of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge

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Interbasaltic coals from the Faeroe Islands contain a terrestrial microflora of pollen and spores indicating a late Paleocene (Landenian) age. This microflora is younger than the Maastrichtian to Danian microflora known from interbasaltic coals of Mull, Scotland, and is older than the interbasaltic microflora from Iceland.

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    Jane Lund

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  1. University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Martin H. P. Bott

  2. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Svend Saxov

  3. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA

    Manik Talwani

  4. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Jörn Thiede

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Lund, J. (1983). Biostratigraphy of Interbasaltic Coals from the Faeroe Islands. In: Bott, M.H.P., Saxov, S., Talwani, M., Thiede, J. (eds) Structure and Development of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Nato Conference Series, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3485-9_21

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