III.—Sketch of the Geology of Ice Sound and Bell Sound, Spitzbergen

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Author: Nordenskiöld, A. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1876
• Subjects: Geology; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800153907; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800153907

Ice and Bell Sounds are two large fiords opening out on the west coast of Spitzbergen, which cut deep into the country, both in an easterly direction towards Stor Fiord, and in a northerly direction towards the south part of Wijde Bay. The shores of the Sounds are for the most part occupied by high mountains, precipitous towards the sea, nearly free from snow during the summer, whose sides, being bare of vegetation, offer the observer an uncommonly favourable opportunity for studying the geological structure of the rocks. Within an excecdingly limited space one meets here with a succession of strata belonging to a great many different geological periods, and rich in fossils, both of the vegetable and animal kingdom.