Field observations in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sediments of Scoresby Land and northern Jameson Land

Abstract

The 1971 summer season was the last within GGU's five year mapping programme in the Scoresby Sund region to involve Scoresby Land and Jameson Land. The field work in the northern part of this area was carried out by four parties (see fig. 5). M. Aellen (Zurich) revisited the area of Gurreholm Bjerge, mapped by him in 1957 and 1958. He was assisted by S. Stouge (Copenhagen) who collected material for studies on Permian conodonts. R. G. Bromley and U. Asgaard (Copenhagen) revised Callomon's (1970) map along the southern part of Carlsberg Fjord and northem Klitdal and visited areas east and south-east of Schuchert Flod. K. Birkenmajer (Krakow) spent part of the season in Gipsdalen and Pingo Dal, Klitdal and Wegener Halvø for sedimentological studies in the Triassic. He was assisted by B. Buchardt Larsen (Copenhagen) who made special studies of the gypsiferous layers of the Triassic. K. Perch-Nielsen (Copenhagen) was assisted by S. Priisholm (Arhus) and mapped around Kap Biot, on Wegener Halvø and along Carlsberg Fjord, mainly revising the maps of Grasmiick & Triimpy (1969) and Callomon (1970). A preliminary geological map of the southem part of the Jameson Land is to be published by Surlyk et al. (this report). For the northem part of the area, a preliminary geological map has been published by Bromley et al. (1970). The present report contains the principal results of the field work in 1971 together with observations made by M. Aellen in 1957 and 1958. S. E. Bendix Almgreen (Copenhagen) kindly identified the vertebrate remains.