Abstract
The name Sjælland Fjelde Formation is introduced for a varied sequence of shallow-water platform dolomites and dolomitic limestones, about 105 m in thickness, in Kronprins Christian Land, eastern North Greenland. The new formation lies between the previously described Wandel Valley and Børglum River Formations. Conodont faunas indicate that the Sjælland Fjelde Formation is of Middle to earliest Late Whiterockian (early Middle Ordovician) age and that it can be eorrelated with the upper part of the Wandel Valley Formation of Peary Land to the north-west.
Highlights
The name Sjælland Fjelde Formation is introduced for a varied sequence of shallow-water platform dolomites and dolomitic limestones, about 105 m in thickness, in Kronprins Christian Land, eastern North Greenland
Geologieal observations were often seattered in widely separate loealities, with the inevitable result that several loeal stratigraphie sehemes have been established in the literature
Two sueh loeal nomenclatures have been formulated in Kronprins Christian Land and in Peary Land, in eastern areas of North Greenland
Summary
The name Sjælland Fjelde Formation is introduced for a varied sequence of shallow-water platform dolomites and dolomitic limestones, about 105 m in thickness, in Kronprins Christian Land, eastern North Greenland. Two sueh loeal nomenclatures have been formulated in Kronprins Christian Land and in Peary Land, in eastern areas of North Greenland As aresult of field work earried out throughout the region by the Geological Survey of Greenland in the North Greenland Project 1978-80 it has been possibie to develop a single integrated stratigraphie nomenclature for Lower Palaeozoic strata in the Peary Land to Kronprins Christian Land region. Lower Palaeozoic strata in Kronprins Christian Land principally outcrop in the foreland zone of the Caledonian fold belt of East Greenland.
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