Comparative note on the Precambrian basement of southern Inglefield Land and eastern Ellesmere Island

Abstract

A one-week visit to southem Inglefield Land, by the GGU motor cutter K. J. V. Steenstrup in conjunction with P. R. Dawes's geological studies in North-West Greenland, provided an opportunity to examine the Precambrian crystalline basement between Sunrise Pynt and Kap Alexander (fig. 4). The basement exposures face those on eastem Ellesmere Island, no more than 70 km away across Smith Sound, which were mapped by the writer in 1977 for the Geological Survey of Canada (Frisch et al., 1978). This note briefly compares the two areas.