Preliminary results of mapping in the western gneiss and schist zone around Vestfjord and inner Gåsefjord, south-west Scoresby Sund

Abstract

The western gneiss and schist zone, as referred to by Henriksen & Higgins (this report), occupies the ground west of a major fauIt running southwards (west of 28°W) from Nordvestfjord, down the western side of Rødefjord to Gåsefjord (map 1); the area described here was mapped at a scale of 1:50 000 in the summer of 1972 and extends southwards from ground mapped by GGU in 1970 (Henriksen & Higgins, 1971). The areas mapped by each of the authors are shown on the key of the geological map (map 1).