Open AccessSilurian carbonate mounds in Peary Land, North Greenland
Author(s) -
P.D Lane,
A. T. Thomas
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v88.7555
Subject(s) - fjord , geology , oceanography , carbonate , north east , geography , archaeology , physical geography , history , ethnology , materials science , metallurgy
Carbonate mounds are important features in the Silurian of North Greenland. They occur in an approximately west-east trending belt from Washington Land in the west to the Victoria Fjord area in the east- a distance ofsome 300 km (Dawes, 1971, 1976). Mounds in Peary Land, 250 km to the east of the Victoria Fjord area, are much less common than in western North Greenland. They are, as yet, not known in extreme eastern Peary Land or in Kronprins Christian Land (Christie & Peel, 1977).