Open AccessOn two specimens of fossil wood with adhering bark from the Nûgssuaq Peninsula
Author(s) -
F.J Mathiesen
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2936
pISSN - 0105-3507
DOI - 10.34194/bullggu.v30.6564
Subject(s) - fossil wood , peninsula , bark (sound) , danish , fossil record , paleontology , casual , archaeology , geology , geography , forestry , materials science , composite material , linguistics , philosophy
An important part of the paleontological material collected by the "Danish Nûgssuaq Expeditions" under the leadership of A. Rosenkrantz consists of very extensive collections of fossil wood. The greater part of the samples brought home are distinguished by a very good, in some case an excellent state of preservation which has made it possible to obtain from them slides of a unique quality. While previous finds of fossil wood from the artic have been mostly of a casual nature, the samples collected as erratics, the greater part of the material gathered in 1938 and 1939 has been taken either from strata of known geological age or at least found in the screes originating from such strata.