Petrology of the Vandfaldsdalen Macrodike, Skaergaard Region, East Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: WHITE, CRAIG M., GEIST, DENNIS J., FROST, CAROL D., VERWOERD, WILHELM J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1989
• Subjects: Articles; Greenland; Wall Rocks; Vandfaldsdalen; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/2/271; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/30.2.271

The Vandfaldsdalen macrodike is a layered and differentiated gabbroic dike approximately 3�5 km long and from 200 to 500 m wide. It appears to cut the eastern margin of the Skaergaard intrusion and may have served as a feeder for the Basistoppen sill. The macrodike can be divided into three series o...