Disko Bugt Project, central West Greenland

Abstract

One of GGU’s major field activities in 1989 took place in July and August in the north-eastern part of the Disko Bugt region, mainly north of Illulissat (Jakobshavn) (fig. 1). This was the second year of the ‘Disko Bugt Project’, planned for 1988–1991, with one summer's break in 1990. The project spreads over various activities and over two very different geological provinces: the Archacan-Proterozoic basement east and north-east of Disko Bugt and in the eastern part of Nugssuaq, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary basin in the west, on Disko and the western part of Nugssuaq. The main aim of the project is to provide a background for the evaluation of the economic potential of the region mineral resources in the Precambrian basement, and the hydrocarbon potential of the basin.