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    Porcupine abyssal plain. The Rockall Basin (also known as the Hatton Rockall Basin) is a large (c. 800 km by 150 km) sedimentary basin that lies beneath the...
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    Rockall (/ˈrɒkɔːl/) is an uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. The United Kingdom claims that Rockall lies within its territorial...
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  • Rockall is a small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. Rockall may also refer to: Rockall Basin, sedimentary basin to the west...
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  • Rockall Bank to the east. The basin contains about 4,000 m of sediments of probable Cretaceous to Cenozoic age. Its relationship to the Rockall Basin...
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  • on the Beaufort scale), if any (e.g., "There are warnings of gales in Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, and Fair Isle"). This sometimes follows the opposite...
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    Slope MPA(NC)". NatureScot. Retrieved 7 October 2020. "SiteLink: Hatton-Rockall Basin MPA(NC)". NatureScot. Retrieved 7 October 2020. "SiteLink: Loch Carron...
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    Several states have claimed interests over the sea bed adjoining Rockall, an uninhabitable granite islet which is located within the exclusive economic...
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    Cheshire Basin Worcester Basin Hampshire Basin Cardigan Bay Basin St George's Channel Basin Wessex Basin Rockall Basin Porcupine Basin The negative anomaly...
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    also been recorded from pelagic waters such as off Hebrides and on Rockall Basin as late as in 2000s. Right whales have also on rare occasion been observed...
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    Forth Banks Complex (FOF) Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope (GSH) Hatton-Rockall Basin (HRB) North-east Faroe-Shetland Channel (NEF) North-west Orkney (NWO)...
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    McDonnell, A.; Bailey, W.R. (2006). "The evolution of the Porcupine and Rockall basins, offshore Ireland: the geological template for carbonate mound development"...
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  • (200–500m), bathyal zone (500–2000m), and abyssal zone (2000–4000m), in the Rockall Basin, Porcupine Seabight, and Celtic Sea. Taxonomy follows Taxonomy of the...
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  • sedimentary basins of Britain and Ireland are numerous, occurring beneath both the land surface of these islands and the surrounding seas. Sedimentary basins (not...
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    the smaller but similar Ymir Ridge, form the northern boundary to the Rockall Basin, a mainly Mesozoic rift structure. The current form of the ridge is...
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    and growth of sill complexes: insights using 3D seismic from the North Rockall Trough". Bulletin of Volcanology. 66 (4): 364–375. Bibcode:2004BVol...66...
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    extension of the crust and formations of troughs and sedimentary basins. The Rockall Trough opened between 105 and 84 million years ago although along...
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  • 1,500 m (4,900 ft) deep. It's found as far north as Ireland, in the Rockall Basin, and as far south as Namibia. There are more specimens in the southeast...
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    Nankai Trough Northumberland Trough Okinawa Trough in the East China Sea Rockall Trough and others along the rift of the mid-oceanic ridge Salton Trough...
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    eruptions built up a huge basalt plateau that covered almost the entire Faroe–Rockall region, together with the southeastern part of Greenland. In simple terms...
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    The Anton Dohrn Seamount is a guyot in the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic. It is 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) high and is topped with pinnacles,...
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    Azores (following the Mid-Atlantic Ridge); and the area around the Rockall Basin, Britain, Ireland, and (during winter) northern Portugal. A single specimen...
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  • Slyne-Erris Trough (category Sedimentary basins of Europe)
    links the Erris and Porcupine Basins. The Erris Trough or Erris Basin is a half-graben that runs parallel with the Rockall Basin and is separated from it by...
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    Quality of Life survey. Rockall is a small rocky islet in the North Atlantic which was declared part of Scotland by the Island of Rockall Act 1972. However...
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    Greenland. By c. 83 Mya spreading had begun in the North Atlantic between the Rockall Plateau, a continental fragment sitting on top of the Eurasian Plate, and...
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    Shetland Islands South: Mull of Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway West: Either Rockall (annexed in 1972 to the former Inverness-shire), the international status...
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    during storms, rendering them uninhabitable. Finally, there is remote Rockall, which is 367 kilometres (228 mi) to the west of North Uist. It is a small...
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  • hotspot areas on Europe's deep-ocean margin, including the Scandinavian, Rockall-Porcupine and central Mediterranean margins, and there remain many questions...
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    level at its highest, lies between the deep-water Porcupine Seabight and Rockall Trough. The name comes from the bank's discovery in 1862 by HMS Porcupine...
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     Denmark Norge – On 28 June the ship ran aground on Helen's Reef near Rockall. 635 people were lost; 160 survivors spent up to eight days in open boats...
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    chiefly on the Rockall Bank and on the shelf break north and west of Scotland. The Porcupine Seabight, the southern end of the Rockall Bank, and the shelf...
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