Stratigraphy and sedimentology of a basement-onlapping shallow marine sandstone succession, the Charcot Bugt Formation, Middle–Upper Jurassic, East Greenland

• Published in: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin
• Main Authors: Larsen, Michael, Piasecki, Stefan, Surlyk, Finn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) 2003
• Subjects: East Greenland; Milne Land; Bathonian–Oxfordian; Charcot Bugt Formation; Kap Leslie Formation; sedimentology; biostratigraphy; dinoflagellates; sequence stratigraphy; shallow marine; basement onlap; clinoform unit; Greenland; Norway; Western Basin; Kap; Charcot; Jameson Land; Kap Leslie
• Online Access: https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4693; https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v1.4693

A rocky shore developed in early Middle Jurassic times by transgression of the crystalline basement in Milne Land at the western margin of the East Greenland rift basin. The basement is onlapped by shallow marine sandstones of the Charcot Bugt Formation, locally with a thin fluvial unit at the base....