The Kap København Formation: stratigraphy and palaeobotany of a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland

• Main Author: Bennike, Ole
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1990
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Greenland; Kap; Kap København; Meighen Island; Peary; Peary Land; Betula nana; Dryas octopetala; North Greenland; Oxyria digyna; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/141978

The Kap København Formation in eastern Peary Land, latitude 82°30'N, comprises essentially two facies: silt and sand. The former was deposited in sublittoral environments below wave base, and contains in situ marine faunas, while the latter was deposited in the littoral zone: in the backshore,...