Field work in central and northern East Greenland

Abstract

The expedition to central and northern East Greenland in 1975 had 29 participants. Ten of these took part in the programme for uranium prospecting (Steenfelt, and Secher et al., this report) and 5 field teams studied the following subjects: the sedimentology of continental Trias in Scoresby. Land (Clemmensen & Andreasen, this report), the stratigraphy and structure of the lower Eleonore Bay Group sediments in the Alpefjord region (Caby, this report), the geochemistry of heavy metals in the Eleonore Bay Group, the Caledonian crystalline complex in relation to older crystalline rocks (Frederichsen & Higgins, this report), and finally the Quaternary deposits around CIavering Ø.