The Neoproterozoic Rivieradal Group of Kronprins

• Main Authors: Christian L, Eastern North Greenl, M. Paul Smith, A. K. Higgins, N. J. Soper, Martin Sønderholm, Fjord Group
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Vandredalen thrust sheet; an; Greenland; Hagen; Hagen Fjord; Kronprins Christian Land; Hagen fjord; Kronprins Christian land; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.424.4840; http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr6/nr6_p29-39.pdf

The Rivieradal Group, formally defined here, is confined to the Vandredalen thrust sheet of the Caledonian orogen in Kronprins Christian Land, eastern North Greenland. It comprises a succession of Neoproterozoic siliciclastic sediments that represent the fill of a half-graben basin. The syn-rift Rivieradal Group is overlain by post-rift sediments of the Hagen Fjord Group. The latter succession is present in both the thrust sheet and the Caledonian foreland to the west. In the foreland, where the Rivieradal Group is not represented, the Hagen Fjord Group disconformably overlies Palaeoproterozoic–Mesoproterozoic sandstones of the Independence