Open AccessCambrian - Lower Silurian slope and basin stratigraphy between northern Nyeboe Land and western Amundsen Land, North Greenland
Author(s) -
A.K Higgins,
Nathaniel J. Soper
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v126.7913
Subject(s) - geology , structural basin , paleontology , sequence stratigraphy , sequence (biology) , stratigraphy , turbidite , tectonics , sedimentary depositional environment , biology , genetics
Brief description is given of the Cambrian - Lower Silurian sequence in northern parts of central and western North Greenland, which underlies the turbidites of the Silurian Peary Land Group. Lower parts of the sequence pertain to the southern shelf, and upper parts to the northern slope or basin.