East Greenland Caledonides: stratigraphy, structure and geochronology: The Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg foreland windows, East Greenland Caledonides, and the demise of the ‘stockwerke’ concept

• Main Authors: Higgins, A.K., Leslie, A. Graham
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland 2004
• Subjects: Caledonides; East Greenland; tectonic windows; Geology; QE1-996.5; Geophysics. Cosmic physics; QC801-809; Greenland; Kong Oscar Fjord; Målebjerg; Kong Oscar fjord; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/af6e4942eb704364a5768b72b6ccb77c

Recognition of the Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg foreland windows during the 1997–1998 regional mapping expeditions to the East Greenland Caledonides provided critical evidence for largescale, westward-directed thrusting in the Kong Oscar Fjord region (72°–75°N), a revelation that dealt a final blow to the ‘stockwerke’ concept of an in situ highly mobile infrastructure characterised by rising fronts of Caledonian migmatisation and metasomatism. This paper reviewsearlier investigations in both the Eleonore Sø and Målebjerg areas, and the misinterpretations of rock units that initially obscured recognition of their foreland affinity. The Eleonore Sø andMålebjerg windows can now be placed in context, as part of the lowest structural level of the foreland-propagating thrust pile of the Kong Oscar Fjord region.