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MARC recordGreenland from Archaean to Quaternary. Descriptive text to the geological map of Greenland 1: 2 500 000 / Niels Henriksen, A.K. Higgins, Feiko Kalsbeek, T. Christopher R. Pulvertaft.
| Title: | Greenland from Archaean to Quaternary. Descriptive text to the geological map of Greenland 1: 2 500 000 / Niels Henriksen, A.K. Higgins, Feiko Kalsbeek, T. Christopher R. Pulvertaft. |
| Author(s): | Henriksen, Niels. Higgins, A. K. Kalsbeek, Feiko. Pulvertaft, T. Christopher R. |
| Date: | 2000. |
| In: | Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin. (2000.), Vol. 185 (2000) |
| Abstract: | Nearly 4 Ga of rocks are found in Greenland - earliest Archaean to Quaternary. One fifth of area - 410 000 km² - is exposed, with offshore continental crust double that. Crystalline rocks of Precambrian Shield predominate, having stabilised as part of Laurentian Shield c. 1600 Ma ago. Later developments took place along margins of shield, with sedimentary basins and successions reaching 10-15 km thickness. Orogenic activity then occurred in North Greenland Ellesmerian fold belt and East Greenland Caledonides. Further sedimentation occurred along continent-ocean margins both on- and offshore. Rifting in East Greenland in Devonian to Carboniferous times culminated in opening of North Atlantic in Paleocene. Sea floor spreading was accompanied by extrusion of Tertiary plateau basalts in central belt. Inland Ice is relic of Pleistocene ice ages. Mineral exploitation has been limited to cryolite, lead-zinc and coal deposits, four in all. Prospecting is concentrating on gold, diamond, lead-zinc and hydrocarbons. |
| Notes: | Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin. Vol. 185 :1-93 (2000). |
| Keywords: | 551.1/.4 -- Geology. 551.7 -- Stratigraphy. 912 -- Maps atlases, globes. B -- Geology and soil sciences. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*38) -- Greenland. |
| SPRI record no.: | 156494 |
LDR 02063naa#a2200000#a#4500 001 SPRI-156494 005 20240419035008.0 007 ta 008 240419s2000####xx#ab#|##|###|0||#0|eng#d 035 ## ‡aSPRI-156494 040 ## ‡aUkCU-P‡beng‡eaacr 245 00 ‡aGreenland from Archaean to Quaternary. Descriptive text to the geological map of Greenland 1 :‡b2 500 000 /‡cNiels Henriksen, A.K. Higgins, Feiko Kalsbeek, T. Christopher R. Pulvertaft. 260 ## ‡a[S.l.] :‡b[s.n.],‡c2000. 300 ## ‡ap. 1-93 :‡bill., diags., maps (main one in pocket) 500 ## ‡aGeology of Greenland Survey Bulletin. Vol. 185 :1-93 (2000). 520 3# ‡aNearly 4 Ga of rocks are found in Greenland - earliest Archaean to Quaternary. One fifth of area - 410 000 km² - is exposed, with offshore continental crust double that. Crystalline rocks of Precambrian Shield predominate, having stabilised as part of Laurentian Shield c. 1600 Ma ago. Later developments took place along margins of shield, with sedimentary basins and successions reaching 10-15 km thickness. Orogenic activity then occurred in North Greenland Ellesmerian fold belt and East Greenland Caledonides. Further sedimentation occurred along continent-ocean margins both on- and offshore. Rifting in East Greenland in Devonian to Carboniferous times culminated in opening of North Atlantic in Paleocene. Sea floor spreading was accompanied by extrusion of Tertiary plateau basalts in central belt. Inland Ice is relic of Pleistocene ice ages. Mineral exploitation has been limited to cryolite, lead-zinc and coal deposits, four in all. Prospecting is concentrating on gold, diamond, lead-zinc and hydrocarbons. 650 07 ‡a551.1/.4 -- Geology.‡2udc 650 07 ‡a551.7 -- Stratigraphy.‡2udc 650 07 ‡a912 -- Maps atlases, globes.‡2udc 650 07 ‡aB -- Geology and soil sciences.‡2local 651 #7 ‡a(*3) -- Arctic regions.‡2udc 651 #7 ‡a(*38) -- Greenland.‡2udc 700 1# ‡aHenriksen, Niels. 700 1# ‡aHiggins, A. K. 700 1# ‡aKalsbeek, Feiko. 700 1# ‡aPulvertaft, T. Christopher R. 773 0# ‡7nnas ‡tGeology of Greenland Survey Bulletin. ‡gVol. 185 (2000) ‡wSPRI-142014 917 ## ‡aUnenhanced record from Muscat, imported 2019 948 3# ‡a20240419