The Nyeboe Land fault zone: a major dislocation on the Greenland coast along northern Nares Strait

• Published in: Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience
• Main Author: Dawes, Peter R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1982
• Subjects: Daly; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Hand Bugt; Judge Daly Promontory; Nares; Nyeboe Land; Wulff Land; Nares strait; North Greenland; Nyeboe land; Wulff land
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/141058

The name Nyeboe Land fault zone is proposed for a major dislocation zone in the western part of the North Greenland fold belt, traceable along the outer coast for 300 km. Two other names are introduced: 1) the Hand Bugt fault, a reverse fault that juxtaposes strata at least as old as Cambrian to the...