Uppermost Ordovician and Silurian geology of north-west Peary Land, North Greenland

Abstract

In 1978 mapping was concentrated in the area of Peary Land, between J. P. Koch Fjord and Odins Fjord, south of a line connecting Nordpasset with Harebugt and the western end of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord (fig. 11 and map l). Prior to this season the Silurian geology of the area was largely unknown. Previous investigations of the platform sediments of Peary Land (Koch, 1923; Troelsen, 1949, 1956; Jepsen, 1971) had mainly concentrated on the older Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks of southern Peary Land. The only comprehensive account of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the platform (including Silurian) of Peary Land, by Peel & Christie (1975) and Christie & Peel (1977) was based on a single composite section in the Børglum Elv district, north of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord (fig. 11). A localised detailed study of a Silurian carbonate buildup in the Børglum Elv region (Mayr, 1976) is the only other aspect of Silurian geology studied in the whole area.