Open AccessThe Sjælland Fjelde Formation: a new Ordovician formation from eastern North Greenland
Author(s) -
Jon R. Ineson,
John S. Peel,
M. Paul Smith
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v132.7961
Subject(s) - ordovician , conodont , geology , paleontology , sequence (biology) , biostratigraphy , biology , genetics
The name Sjælland Fjelde Formation is introduced for a varied sequence of shallow-water platform dolomites and dolomitic limestones, about 105 m in thickness, in Kronprins Christian Land, eastern North Greenland. The new formation lies between the previously described Wandel Valley and Børglum River Formations. Conodont faunas indicate that the Sjælland Fjelde Formation is of Middle to earliest Late Whiterockian (early Middle Ordovician) age and that it can be eorrelated with the upper part of the Wandel Valley Formation of Peary Land to the north-west.