Abstract
The Jurassic rift succession of East Greenland has been intensely studied over the last 25 years, particularly within the main outcrop areas of Jameson Land and Wollaston Forland. The more isolated and poorly known outcrops on Traill Ø, Hold with Hope, Hochstetter Forland and Store Koldewey were investigated in the late 1980s and mid-1990s in order to develop a better regional understanding of the Jurassic in eastern Greenland.
 This collection of seven papers focuses on stratigraphic and depositional aspects of the Jurassic at these localities. Comprehensive descriptions of the Jurassic on Hold with Hope and south-eastern Traill Ø are accompanied by papers covering fluvial deposits and new ammonite collections from the Middle Jurassic of Traill Ø. The bulletin is concluded by studies of the dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy of the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Hold with Hope, Hochstetter Forland and Store Koldewey.
Highlights
Cover Eastwards-dipping Middle–Upper Jurassic sandstones and interbedded marine mudstones at the base of the coastal cliffs along the south-east coast of Traill Ø
Frontispiece: facing page Middle Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sandstones exposed on the western slopes of Steensby Bjerg, Hold with Hope, viewed towards the north-east with Finsch Øer in the centre and Clavering Ø in the far distance
The Jurassic succession, which was not recognised until field work in 1996, is preserved in the downfaulted hangingwall blocks of a series of rotated half-grabens formed during the main East Greenland rifting phase in the latest Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous
Summary
Cover Eastwards-dipping Middle–Upper Jurassic sandstones (yellow) and interbedded marine mudstones (dark) at the base of the coastal cliffs along the south-east coast of Traill Ø. The Jurassic sedimentary succession in East and NorthEast Greenland reflects deposition during the early stages of rifting between Greenland and Norway. Jurassic sediments are exposed over a distance of more than 600 km, from Jameson Land in the south to Store Koldewey in the north (Fig. 1), and form one of the best-known exposed ancient rift successions.
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