Carbonate debris flows in the Cambrian of south-west Peary Land, eastern North Greenland

Abstract

In south-western Peary Land a thick carbonate dominated sequence of Early to Late Cambrian Age conformably overlies the Early Cambrian Buen Formation, and is overlain, unconformably, by the Wandel Valley Formation of Early-Middle Ordovician age (Peel, 1979; Palmer & Peel, 1979). This sequence is subdivided into the Brønlund Fjord Group and the overlying Tavsens Iskappe Group (Peel, 1979; Ineson & Peel, this report). The Brønlund Fjord Group characteristically forms resistant bluffs along the north side of Wansel Dal from J. P. Koch Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord (fig. 20) in the east. The Tavsens Iskappe Group is confined to western areas by the south-easterly overstep of the Wandel Valley Formation.