Geological map of Atanikerdluk and environs, 1:10 000

Abstract

The unravelling of the geology of the Atanikerdluk arca is one product of the geological investigations which since 1951 have been carried out along the south coast of the Nûgssuaq peninsula under the Geological Survey of Greenland. The complex of investigations which under the leadership of professor A. Rosenkrantz were concentrated on the geological map Nûgssuaq, and which necessitated the unravelling of the geological conditions of the whole West Greenland sedimentary area in outline, led the senior author of this paper to the Tertiary occurrences of the territory round Atanikerdluk in 1951. Since, there has been worked in this field in the summers of 1952, 1954, and 1956 (B. Eske Koch 1955 and 1959). In 1956 the junior author commenced an investigation of the Cretaceous sequence along the south coast of the Nûgssuaq peninsula to obtain a micropaleontological-stratigraphical cronology.