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• Main Authors: Jameson Land, East Greenland, Richard M. Sykes, I. Fluviatile, Kap Stewart Formation, Department Of Geology, Neill Klinter, Fleming Fjord, Gule Horn
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Kap; Kap Stewart; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.7547; http://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull23-03-04-203-212.pdf

The lower part of the Kap Stewart Formation, formed by the domi-nantly conglomeratic 'barren sandstone', represents alluvial fan de-posits. Upwards there is a marked change to the well developed fining upwards sequences of the 'plant-bearing series ' which com-prise three facies: 1. Coarse arkosic sandstones and conglomerates; 2. Fine rippled bioturbated green sandstones; 3.Variegated siltstones with plant remains and occasional rootlet beds and coal seams. Trough shaped channels, unidirectional palaeocurrents and a lack of epsilon cross-beds all indicate a low sinuosity non braided river environment in close proximity to a SSE source area. In the basal Jurassic a humid climate coal belt in Northern Europe and East Greenland contrasts with an arid climate evaporite belt in Morocco