Tertiary flood basalts outcrop extensively in

• Main Author: Angela M. Faller
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: Blosseville Kyst; Greenland; Blosseville kyst; East Greenland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.579.3134; http://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull24-03-04-173-178.pdf

Measurements have been made of the natural remanent magnetisation of Lower Tertiary basalts from Kangerdlugssuaq on the Blosseville Kyst of central East Greenland. The samples were taken from the base of a 9 km sequence of flows and are associated with fossüiferous marine sediments of uppermost Palaeocene age. The reversed polarity, mean stable rema-nence direction (D = 159°, I =-63°, 095 = 9°), and corresponding palaeomagnetic pole position (185 ° E, 63 ° N), are in close agreement with those found by previous workers who sampled higher parts of the basalt pile. The implications concerning the age of the opening of the North-east Atlantic and the geomagnetic polarity time scale are discussed.