Episodic burial and exhumation in North-East Greenland before and after opening of the North-East Atlantic

• Published in: GEUS Bulletin
• Main Authors: Japsen, Peter, Green, Paul F., Bonow, Johan M., Bjerager, Morten, Hopper, John R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen 2021
• Subjects: Erosion; hiatus; peneplain; uplift; tectonics; Geology; Geologi; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Multidisciplinär geovetenskap; Greenland; Jameson Land; East Greenland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-470540; https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v45.5299

The geology of North-East Greenland (70-78 degrees N) exposes unique evidence of the basin development between the Devonian collapse of the Caledonian Orogen and the extrusion of volcanics at the Paleocene-Eocene transition during break-up of the North-East Atlantic. Here we pay special attention to...