Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap København Formation, North Greenland

• Main Authors: Símonarson, Leifur A., Petersen, Kaj Strand, Funder, Svend
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Kap; Kap København; North Greenland; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/140966

The sediments of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap København Formation reflect a succession from isostatic conditioned regression (Member A) to transgression (Member B). Transgression rates were first slow (unit B1), then faster (unit B2), and then again slower (unit B3). The fragmented molluscan death a...