Open AccessNotes on some Lower Palaeozoic to Tertiary faunas from eastern North Greenland
Author(s) -
J.S Peel,
P.R Dawes,
J.C. Troelsen
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v65.7379
Subject(s) - precambrian , paleozoic , geology , carboniferous , paleontology , structural basin , fauna , section (typography) , north sea , oceanography , ecology , advertising , business , biology
The north-east 'corner' of Greenland is geologically probably the least known region in North Greenland. Various expeditions have visited the coastal parts but geological detail, particularly faunal information, has remained surprisingly scarce. Initial field work by Koch (1923, 1925) and Troelsen (1949a, b, 1950) showed that a Precambrian to Silurian section - unfolded in the south, folded in the north - was unconformably overlain by a Carboniferous to Tertiary section, now referred to as the Wandel Sea basin (Dawes & Soper, 1973).