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The North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) is a basaltic province of the North Atlantic formed during the Paleogene. Before the opening of the North Atlantic, it extended over a large area (Saunders et al. 1997). Significant remnants of it exist mainly in Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Faroe Islands, and western Greenland (Figure 1.5 and Chapter 3).

At the end of the Cretaceous, the North America–Greenland–Europe region had no significant volcanic activity. Oceanic expansion was taking place between Canada and the southern Labrador Sea. Around 62 My, volcanic eruptions began in a vast region with extensive magma activity (intrusive and extrusive), notably in western Greenland (Chauvet et al. 2019) and in the sector of the Hebrides Islands (Wilkinson et al. 2016) and continued until 56 My.