Preliminary results of mapping in the crystalline complex of Renland, the southern Stauning Alper and south-west Liverpool Land, Scoresby Sund, East Greenland

Abstract

The Caledonian crystalline complex of Renland and the southem Stauning Alper, south and north of the outer part of Nordvestfjord, was mapped by GGU (Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse) on a 1:50 000 scale in the summer of 1969. The region to the west, around the inner part of Nordvestfjord, was mapped in 1968 (Henriksen & Higgins, 1969). To the east the crystalline complex is bordered by prominent faults which separate it from the Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic rocks of the Jameson Land basin.