Abstract
The first season of the two-year field mapping programme in central and western North Greenland was carried out from June to August 1984. The investigations are a continuation of the 1978-1980 mapping programme in the Peary Land region, adjoining the present area to the east. One of the main aims of the regional geological studies in the present programme is the production of a 1:500 000 map sheet of the area between J. P. Koch Fjord (c.400W) in the east and north-easternmost Washington Land (65°W) in the west; the southem boundary of the map sheet is latitude 81°N, although the Inland Ice in most of the region forms the southern margin of the rock outcrop. A special source rock project (Christiansen & Rolle, this report), financed by the Danish Ministry of Energy, was fully integrated with the mapping programme.
Highlights
The first season of the two-year field mapping programme in central and western North Greenland was carried out from June to August 1984
Logistic preparations for the 1984 work were begun in 1980, with storage of equipment used during the 1978-1980 expeditions to Peary Land, and continued in the summer of 1983 when fuel, equipment and provisions were flown into the Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert in north-east Ellesmere Island, Canada (Dawes, 1984)
The photogrammetric work was based on new wide-angle aerial photographs taken in 1978 at a scale of 1:150000 and on control points established by the Geodetic Institute, Copenhagen
Summary
The first season of the two-year field mapping programme in central and western North Greenland was carried out from June to August 1984. F. Jepsen: Late Proterozoic to Silurian stratigraphy and structural geology of Wulff Land: a detailed cross-section from the unfolded platform to the folded trough. The third major unit is an up to 8-10 km thick deep-water sequence of mainly clastic sediments deposited on the slope and trough to the north of the platform.
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