V.—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; Greenland; Heer; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800154706; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800154706

Cretaceous Beds .—During our previous Expeditions we had not fallen in with any strata belonging to this period on Spitzbergen; but in the beginning of the Expedition of 1872 I had the good fortune to supply this missing link in the geology of Spitzbergen through the very unexpected discovery, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Taxodium strata at Cape Staratschin, of fossil plants, which had an unmistakable reference to the fossils which I brought home some years ago from Kome in Greenland (Lower Cretaceous). A closer examination by Professor Heer showed that this supposition was so far correct, inasmuch as the strata in question truly belonged to the Cretaceous series, though occupying a position more recent than the Kome strata in Greenland.