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

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

This paper compiles and correlates for the first time Cretaceous to Eocene palynostratigraphies across the Arctic. It focuses 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 the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Barents Sea region offshore Norway. The paper compiles data from more than three decades of detailed Arctic palynological analyses, based mainly on dinoflagellate cysts. It gives a historical overview of the Cretaceous to Paleogene palaeontological studies of Greenland and presents an overview of 85 palynological intervals and numerous bioevents. The palynological assemblages from the Labrador–Baffin Seaway, Nuussuaq Basin and north-east Baffin Bay reflect the opening of the Labrador–Baffin Seaway, from a brackish to freshwater environment in a large embayment in the Early ...