Evidence for a major sediment input point into the Faroe-Shetland Basin from the Kangerlussuaq region of southern East Greenland

• Published in: Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series
• Main Authors: Larsen, M., Whitham, A. G.
• Other Authors: Doré, A. G., Vining, B.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society 2005
• Subjects: 05 - Petrology - Igneous; Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies; Christian IV Gletscher; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; East Greenland; Faroes
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/1541/; https://doi.org/10.1144/0060913

Studies of the sedimentary succession in Kangerlussuaq, southern East Greenland suggest that a prominent sediment input point existed in the region in the Late Cretaceous–Palaeogene, which was controlled by a major northwest–southeast-oriented fault lineament. The presence of this sediment transfer...