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Review of Greenland Avtivities 2001 - Geus

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<strong>Greenland</strong>:<br />

onshore/<strong>of</strong>fshore<br />

Based on map compiled by<br />

T.C.R. Pulvertaft, Geological<br />

Survey <strong>of</strong> Denmark and<br />

<strong>Greenland</strong>. The bathymetric<br />

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sediment thicknesses<br />

Offshore basins where deeper<br />

sedimentary successions are concealed<br />

by Palaeogene basalts<br />

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Ocean<br />

Landward limit <strong>of</strong> proven oceanic crust<br />

Extensional fault<br />

Compressional fault, thrust<br />

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Intrusive complexes; Palaeogene in East<br />

<strong>Greenland</strong>, 20° Mesoproterozoic in South <strong>Greenland</strong><br />

Basalts: Palaeogene in East and West <strong>Greenland</strong>;<br />

Upper Cretaceous in North <strong>Greenland</strong><br />

Cretaceous–Palaeogene sediments,<br />

Reykjavik West 64° <strong>Greenland</strong> and East <strong>Greenland</strong>;<br />

Nuussuaq and Kangerlussuaq Basins<br />

Carboniferous–Palaeogene sediments,<br />

Wandel Sea Basin in North <strong>Greenland</strong><br />

Carboniferous–Cretaceous sediments,<br />

East <strong>Greenland</strong>, Jameson Land Basin<br />

62°<br />

and North-East <strong>Greenland</strong><br />

Devonian sediments and volcanics,<br />

North-East <strong>Greenland</strong><br />

Shelf<br />

Trough*<br />

60°<br />

Lower Palaeozoic sediments, North<br />

<strong>Greenland</strong>. * Reaches Devonian<br />

Franklinian Basin, IO: Innuitian orogen<br />

Meso- to Neoproterozoic sediments and<br />

volcanic rocks<br />

Caledonian orogenic belt, contains Archaean,<br />

Proterozoic and Palaeozoic rocks<br />

Palaeoproterozoic orogenic belts, contain<br />

both Archaean and Proterozoic rocks<br />

IMB: Inglefield mobile belt;<br />

RMB: Rinkian mobile belt;<br />

KMB: Ketilidian mobile belt;<br />

NMB: Nagssugtoqidian mobile belt<br />

Site <strong>of</strong> exploration well<br />

Archaean craton<br />

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