New geological map of the Thule region, North-West Greenland

Abstract

Map sheet no. 5 (Thule), part of the 14-map geological map series at 1:500 000 covering the onshore geology of Greenland, was published in 1991 (Dawes 1991; Fig. 1). The Thule map covers the northern part of the west coast of Greenland between latitudes 75° 15' and 78°N, including the region traditionally known as the Thule or Kap York district (Figs 1 & 2). The southern part of the map covers the relatively inaccessible coast of Melville Bugt, known as the Lauge Koch Kyst. Here the Inland Ice reaches the sea along a broad front leaving land exposed only as nunataks, semi-nunataks, ice-rooted peninsulas and islands.