Open AccessCambrian platform stratigraphy in the Warming Land – Freuchen Land region, North Greenland
Author(s) -
John S. Peel,
Simon Wright
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v126.7908
Subject(s) - geology , ordovician , lithology , burrow , paleontology , stratigraphy , carbonate , tectonics , materials science , metallurgy
Cambrian platform strata in the Warming Land - Freuchen Land region are briefly described and correlated with sequences in more easterly and westerly areas of North Greenland. The name Ryder Gletscher Group is proposed for a mainly carbonate sequence (thickness about 640 m) in the Warming Land - Wulff Land area of Early Cambrian - Early Ordovician age. Dominant lithologies are dark burrow-mottled dolomites and paIe, cryptaIgaI laminites, but micrites, thin shales and thin sandstones are common in higher beds. Six formations are recognised but not formally described.