Abstract
Geologists working in East Greenland have introduced a number of place names derived from their measurement of sedimentary sections (or profiles) in well exposed rock sequences. These names include: Profilbjerg, ProfiIdal, Profilfjeldet, Profile Ravine and another Profilbjerg. The first three of these have been approved by the Greenland Place Names Committee, and of these two are type localities for stratigraphical units; the latter two have not been approved, and have no official status.
Highlights
Geologists working in East Greenland have introduced a number of place names derived from their measurement of sedimentary sections in well exposed rock sequences
Profilbjerg is a mountain in northern Scoresby Land, 9 km west of Mesters Vig
Profilbjerg has been used for the 950 m high peak south of Lille Cirkusbjerg in southern Wegener Halvø
Summary
Geologists working in East Greenland have introduced a number of place names derived from their measurement of sedimentary sections (or profiles) in well exposed rock sequences. Profilbjerg is a mountain in northern Scoresby Land, 9 km west of Mesters Vig. The name arose during detailed lead prospecting in 1948-49, and was subsequently approved. Detailed topographic maps show the present speIling, but in some early geological publications (e.g. Witzig, 1954) it appeared in the form Profilbjærg. Kempter (1961) subsequently named one of the units of the Carboniferous-Permian sequence the 'Profilbjærg-Schichtglied'; in the revised terminology of Perch-Nielsen et al (1972), this becomes the Profilbjerg Member of the Mesters Vig Formation.
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