Open AccessGlacitectonic deformations in East Greenland
Author(s) -
Svend Funder,
Kaj Strand Petersen
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1979-28-13
Subject(s) - geology , quaternary , holocene , glacier , geomorphology , deformation (meteorology) , tension (geology) , thrust , paleontology , oceanography , physics , classical mechanics , thermodynamics , moment (physics)
Dislocated Quaternary marine and glacilacustrine sediments are demonstrated at two localities in East Greenland. The deformations comprise thrust floes, overturned folds and tension fractures formed by glacier overriding in the Holocene. At one locality there is evidence of ponded drainage and pro- and subglacial deformation of unfrozen sediments. Glacitectonic deformations have not earlier been recorded from Greenland.