2003: The Jurassic of Kuhn Ø, North-East Greenland

• Main Authors: Per C. Alsgaard, Vince L. Felt, Henrik Vosgerau, Finn Surlyk
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Kuhn Ø; East Greenland; Kuhn ø
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.604.9114; http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr1_p865-892.pdf

The Middle–Upper Jurassic succession of Kuhn Ø, North-East Greenland accumulated in a major half-graben and is an excellent analogue for the subsurface of the mid-Norwegian shelf. On Kuhn Ø, peneplaned crystalline basement was incised by a drainage system during a major base-level lowstand, probably in late Early or early Middle Jurassic times. It was filled with fluvial conglomerates of the newly defined Middle Jurassic Bastians Dal Formation during subsequent base-level rise. As sea level continued to rise, precursor-peat of the coals of the Muslingebjerg Formation formed in swamps which covered the conglomerates and filled the remaining space of the incised val-ley system. The valley and interfluve areas were flooded in Late Bathonian – Callovian times and tidally-dominated, shallow marine sandstones of the Pelion Formation were deposited on top of the valley fill and over the adjacent basement peneplain. These sandstones are overlain by the newly defined shallow marine Oxfordian Payer Dal Formation which is subdivided into a lower unit and an upper unit, separated by a major drowning surface. The Payer Dal Formation sands were flooded in the Late Jurassic and organic-rich, offshore mudstones of the Bernbjerg Formation were deposited. The Jurassic succession of Kuhn Ø can thus be subdivided into large-scale sed-imentary units separated by major drowning surfaces. They are of regional extent, and in com-