Open AccessLower Palaeozoic geology of the western part of the North Greenland fold belt
Author(s) -
P.R Dawes
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v11.7138
Subject(s) - geology , fjord , paleozoic , fold (higher order function) , arctic , ordovician , paleontology , oceanography , ecological succession , stratigraphy , tectonics , physical geography , archaeology , geography , mechanical engineering , engineering , ecology , biology
In the summers 1965 and 1966 reconnaissance mapping of 10 000 km2 of the rarely visited north coast of North Greenland was carried out. In 1965 the investigations were restricted to Hall Land (fig. 3) with a view of obtaining an insight into the stratigraphy of the Ordovician-Silurian succession, while in 1966 work centred on Nyeboe Land and Hendrik Island with cursory exammation of the north-west coast of Wulff Land and the islands in Sherard Osborn Fjord. Both the unfolded rocks of the south towards the Inland Ice and the folded rocks of the northern coast bordering the Robeson Channel and the Arctic Ocean were studied and in the two summers a broad view of the western part of the North Greenland fold belt i. e. west of Peary Land, has been obained.