The geology of the Centrumsø area of Kronprins Christian Land, northeast Greenland, and lithological constraints on speleogenesis

• Main Authors: Smith, M. Paul, Rasmussenm, Jan Audun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: cave; geology; Greenland; speleogenesis; Kronprins Christian Land; Kronprins Christian land
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6812358; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6812358

The cave-bearing limestones of Kronprins Christian Land, northeast Greenland, were deposited on the Laurentian craton, on a sector of the margin referred to the Franklinian Basin. A 1.4km succession of Ordovician–Silurian carbonates rests unconformably on Lower Cambrian sandstones and Neoproterozoic...