Abstract
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).
Highlights
A composite sequence of sediments exceeding 3500 m was recorded in eastern Peary Land, the 'Prinsesse Øer', and the northem part of Kronprins Christian Land
The geological structure af the Kim Fjelde is reflected in the characteristic, often cuesta-like, landscape with parallel, elongate hilis reaching a maximum height of 900 m in the north (Henry Parish Bjerg)
A10ng the north-eastern margin, the Kim Fjelde are bordered by a broad low lying plain with a continuous cover of Quaternary sediments
Summary
This paper presents areport on the first systematic mapping in the northem half of the Wandel Sea Basin carried out in 1978. The Wandel Sea Basin comprises a series of Carboniferous to Paleocene rocks in eastern North Greenland (Dawes & Soper, 1973). A composite sequence of sediments exceeding 3500 m was recorded in eastern Peary Land, the 'Prinsesse Øer', and the northem part of Kronprins Christian Land In eastern Peary Land the sediments of the Wandel Sea Basin occur mainly in the Kim Fjelde area A10ng the north-eastern margin, the Kim Fjelde are bordered by a broad low lying plain with a continuous cover of Quaternary sediments
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