Geological maps are of vital importance for documenting and advancing geological knowledge and they are a prerequi-site for any meaningful evaluation of economic resources. In Greenland, mapping is taking place on the mainland – that for two centuries has been the traditional exploration target – an...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.631.1671 2023-05-15T16:27:08+02:00 The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.631.1671 http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr17/nr17_p57-60.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.631.1671 http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr17/nr17_p57-60.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr17/nr17_p57-60.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T15:29:19Z Geological maps are of vital importance for documenting and advancing geological knowledge and they are a prerequi-site for any meaningful evaluation of economic resources. In Greenland, mapping is taking place on the mainland – that for two centuries has been the traditional exploration target – and offshore, where only in the last decades has hydrocar-bon exploration moved to the continental shelves. Greenland with its 2 166 000 km2 is the largest island in the world. However, the land is overwhelmed by ice. A cen-tral ice sheet – the Inland Ice – blankets some 81 % of the country reducing rock outcrop to a coastal fringe 0 to 300 km wide (Fig. 1). The continental shelves comprise a little more than twice the area of this fringe, c. 830 000 km2. This preamble serves to emphasise that Greenland’s three physiographic units – exposed fringe, offshore and Inland Ice Text Greenland Ice Sheet Unknown Greenland |
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Geological maps are of vital importance for documenting and advancing geological knowledge and they are a prerequi-site for any meaningful evaluation of economic resources. In Greenland, mapping is taking place on the mainland – that for two centuries has been the traditional exploration target – and offshore, where only in the last decades has hydrocar-bon exploration moved to the continental shelves. Greenland with its 2 166 000 km2 is the largest island in the world. However, the land is overwhelmed by ice. A cen-tral ice sheet – the Inland Ice – blankets some 81 % of the country reducing rock outcrop to a coastal fringe 0 to 300 km wide (Fig. 1). The continental shelves comprise a little more than twice the area of this fringe, c. 830 000 km2. This preamble serves to emphasise that Greenland’s three physiographic units – exposed fringe, offshore and Inland Ice |
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