Reassembling the Paleogene–Eocene North Atlantic igneous province New paleomagnetic constraints from the Isle of Mull, Scotland》.pdf

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 272 (2008) 464–475 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Earth and Planetary Science Letters jour nal homepage: www. /locate/epsl Reassembling the Paleogene–Eocene North Atlantic igneous province: New paleomagnetic constraints from the Isle of Mull, Scotland Morgan Ganerød a,b,⁎, Mark A. Smethurst a, Sonia Rousse c, Trond H. Torsvik a,d, Tore Prestvik b a Geological Survey of Norway, Geodynamics team, 7491 Trondheim, Norway b Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway c Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts en Géologie, Toulouse, France d Physics of Geological Processes, Sem Selands vei 24, 0316 Oslo, Norway A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: The paleomagnetic data sets from the British Tertiary Igneous Province (BTIP) have recently been criticized as Received 20 September 2007 being unreliable and discordant with data from elsewhere in the North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) [Riisager Received in revised form 5 May 2008 et al. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 201 (2002) 261–276; Riisager et al. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 214 (2003) 409–425]. We Accepted 9 May 2008 offer new paleomagnetic data for the extensive lava flow sequence on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, and can confirm Available online 28 May 2008 the paleomagnetic pole positions emanating from important earlier studies. Our new north paleomagnetic pole Editor: R.W. Carlson position for Eurasia at