Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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faulting as further east, we then climbed up to 1200 feet above the sea where I left White to con- tinue up to 2000 feet. On my return to a level of about 1050 to 1100 feet I collect a small lot of some fossils in a coal band. The Permian craniums also occurred at this level and we found it much lower down. The general dips in this again is nearly uniform and in towards the sea, The streams run along the dips. The general mass is made up of sandstones, conglomerates are com- paratively thin bands of carbonaceous shale and coal. Returning to camp by 12.30 we had dinner and by 2 P.M. we shoved away for North Anglestone and were there by 6 P.M. On the way it is plainly evident that the great mass of basalt above the Cretaceous beds lie unconformable upon them since to the westward it comes constantly to a lower level while the Cretaceous beds appear to dip eastward. In another place the Cretaceous is seen unconformably against the magnesian and finally covers it. In this region the basalt cap is very extensive but rarely is it continuous as often so only in comparatively thin bands.