The Cretaceous to Eocene: a biostratigraphical review and a new detailed palynostratigraphy of Greenland and adjacent areas ...

• Main Author: Nøhr-Hansen, Henrik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Marine Biology; Inorganic Chemistry; FOS Chemical sciences; Science Policy; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin Bay; Baffin; Barents Sea; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Danmarkshavn; East Greenland; Greenland; North Greenland; Nuussuaq
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26212881.v1; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/online_resource/The_Cretaceous_to_Eocene_a_biostratigraphical_review_and_a_new_detailed_palynostratigraphy_of_Greenland_and_adjacent_areas/26212881/1

The present paper compile and correlate for the first time Cretaceous to Eocene palynostratigraphies across the Arctic. It focus on Greenland and adjacent areas, including the Labrador–Baffin Seaway, onshore Nuussuaq Basin in central West Greenland, onshore southern East Greenland, central East Greenland, North-East Greenland, eastern North Greenland and the Danmarkshavn Basin, but also extends to Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Barents Sea region off Norway. The paper compile data from more than three decades of detailed Arctic palynological analyses, based mainly on dinoflagellate cysts. The paper gives a historical overview of the Cretaceous to Palaeogene paleontological studies of Greenland and presents an overview of 85 palynological intervals and numerous events. The palynological assemblages from the Labrador–Baffin Seaway, Nuussuaq Basin and north-east Baffin Bay reflect the opening of the Labrador–Baffin Seaway from brackish to freshwater environment in a large embayment in the Early Cretaceous ...