Open AccessCarboniferous to Tertiary development of the Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland
Author(s) -
Eckart Håkansson
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v88.7558
Subject(s) - carboniferous , structural basin , geology , oceanography , north sea , paleontology , geography
This paper presents a report on the first systematic mapping in the northem half of the Wandel Sea Basin carried out in 1978. Due to unfavourable weather conditions along the north-east coast of Peary Land, only 20 days of actual fieldwork were achieved. The Wandel Sea Basin comprises a series of Carboniferous to Paleocene rocks in eastern North Greenland (Dawes & Soper, 1973). Previous visits to the northem part of the basin have been very brief (Koch, 1929a; Troelsen, 1950, 1956; Håkansson & Heinberg, 1977) and only in the southern part is the basin known in any detail (Dawes, 1976).