The Mesozoic sediments of Qeqertarssuaq, Umanaq District, West Greenland

Abstract

In 1947, during the work of the Geological Survey of Greenland in the Umanak District of West Greenland, Hilmar Ødum and Eske Koch, under the leadership of A. Rosenkrantz, investigated a small sedimentary area on the west side of Qeqertarssuaq in Karrats Fjord, about 4 kilometers north of the settlement Naujåt (ref. fig. 1). The existence of sediments here was established in 1929 by Lauge Koch (1929, page 259), who, however, was not in a position to undertake a closer examination.