Cambrian stratigraphy in Peary Land, eastern North Greenland

Abstract

Cambrian strata in southern Peary Land occur in a continuous Outerop from J. P. Koch Fjord and Adams Gletscher in the west to lndependence Fjord in the eas! (fig. 15), forming a conspicuous rampart on the northern side of Wandal Dal. The Lower Cambrian sequence around Jørgen Brønlund Fjord has previously been described by TroeIsen (1949), Jepsen (1971) and Christie & Peel (1977), who recorded possible Cambrian dolomites of the Portfjeld Formation succeded by the clastic Buen Formation and the dolomitic Brønlund Fjord Formation, both of Early Cambrian age. Troelsen (1956) and Christie & Ineson (1979) have discussed a similar sequence which occurs near G.B. Schley Fjord in eastern Peary Land (fig. 1).