Seismic Refraction Measurements around the Faeroe Islands

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Published Jan 1, 1976
P. Hedebol Nielsen

Abstract

In 1972 a refraction seismic project NASP took place between Iceland and Scotland. It gave observations from the Faeroe Islands where the main results are: The Iceland-Faeroe Ridge has a crust of Icelandic type whereas the Faeroese shelf seems underlain by continental crust. The thickness of the basalt lavas of the islands seems to vary around 3 km. On the shelf the P-wave velocity of the »basement« seems to decrease from about 6.1 km/s in the northwest to about 5.3 km/s in the east.

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Natural Sciences