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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; East Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.621.580; http://www.geus.dk/publications/review-greenland-00/gsb189p99-106.pdf

The recent licensing round in the deep-water areas south-east of the Faeroe Islands has emphasised the con-tinued interest of the oil industry in the frontier areas of the North Atlantic volcanic margins. The search for hydrocarbons is at present focused on the Cretac-eous–Paleocene succession with the Paleocene deep-water play as the most promising (Lamers & Carmichael 1999). The exploration and evaluation of possible plays are almost solely based on seismic interpretation and limited log and core data from wells in the area west of the Shetlands. The Kangerlussuaq Basin in southern East Greenland (Fig. 1) provides, however, important information on basin evolution prior to and during con-tinental break-up that finally led to active sea-floor spreading in the northern North Atlantic. In addition