Early Tertiary Volcanism and the Opening of the NE Atlantic

A conference dealing with ‘Early Tertiary volcanism and the opening of the NE Atlantic’ was held at the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, London, on 18 and 19 March 1987. The meeting was supported and promoted by three of the specialist groups of the Society (Volcanic Studies, Marine Studies and Petroleum groups), and carried the endorsement of the Norsk Petroleumsforening. This broad-based support reflects the truly multidisciplinary nature of the meeting, which saw contributions from geophysicists, geochemists, geochronologists, volcanologists, petroleum geologists, structural geologists, petrologists, sedimentologists and biostratigraphers. The conference was attended by over 180 delegates from throughout the N Atlantic borderlands, who enjoyed the presentation of 34 papers and five posters, and contributed to a number of lively and spirited discussion periods.