DANIAN AND CAMPANIAN/MAASTRICHTIAN COCCOLITHS FROM NtTGSSUAQ
For the first time, fossil calcareous nannoplankton has been found in Greenland and as far north as 70 ° 35 ' N. The coccolith assemblage found in West Greenland represents late Danian and includes also a few reworked Campanian/Maastrichtian coccoliths. Katharina Perch-Nielsen, Institut for His...
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| Summary: | For the first time, fossil calcareous nannoplankton has been found in Greenland and as far north as 70 ° 35 ' N. The coccolith assemblage found in West Greenland represents late Danian and includes also a few reworked Campanian/Maastrichtian coccoliths. Katharina Perch-Nielsen, Institut for Historisk Geologi og Palæon-tologi, Østervoldgade 10, DK-1350 København K, May 1st, 1972. Several attempts have previously been made by the author to find fossil calcareous nannoplankton in the Danian sediments from Nugssuaq in West Greenland (see PI. 1), from where Rosenkrantz (1970) described rich marine faunas, Hansen (1970) reported on planktonic foraminifera and Szczechura (1971) on ostracoda. Professor Rosenkrantz (Mineralogical Museum, Copenhagen) kindly furnished the author with samples collected by him and co-workers during The Danish Nugssuaq Expeditions 1938-39 and the expeditions by the Geological Survey of Greenland under his leadership. Most of the foraminifera described by Hansen (1970) were |
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