Open AccessForaminiferal evidence for the East Greenland Current during the Oligocene
Author(s) -
Krzysztof Birkenmajer,
Antonina Jednorowska
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v85.7537
Subject(s) - microfauna , benthos , calcareous , oceanography , geology , plankton , current (fluid) , paleontology , invertebrate , foraminifera , benthic zone , ecology , fauna , biology
This note summarises results of a microfaunal investigation of nine samples collected in 1971 from the Eocene-Oligocene Krabbedalen Formation, Scoresby Sund, central East Greenland. Six of the samples were taken from a continuous section at Krabbedalen and the remaining three from poor, isolated exposures 0.5 km east and 2.5 km south of Krabbedalen, and 4 km south of Søstrene (Birkenmajer, 1972, fig. 13). The microfauna includes 37 foraminiferal species, predominantly arenaceous benthos (29 species), with single specimens of calcareous benthos (7 species) and one specimen of calcareous plankton.