Lenses of ultramafic rocks located along the top contact (major thrust zone) of the Fiskenaesset complex (anorthosite-leucogabbro intrusion in Archean gneisses) with an overlying meta-volcanite amphibolite.
Rocks with hogbomite and sapphirine are known, bounding to the West the UMF rocks.
References:
- Stromeyer (1819): Analyse einiger von dem Prof. von Giesecke in Grönland entdeckten Fossilien, 2. Saphirin von Fiskenaes oder Kikertarsoeitsiak, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Vol. 63, p 374
- Giesecke, K. L. (1910): Karl Ludwig Giesecke´s mineralogisches
Reisejournal über Groenland, 1806-1813, Medd. Grönland 35,
- Boeggild, O.B. (1953): The Mineralogy of Greenland, Reitzels Forlag Koebenhavn
- Grew, E., Herd, R., Marquez, N. (1987): Boron-bearing Kornerupine from Fiskenaesset, West Greenland: a re-examination of specimens from the type locality, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 51, 695 - 708
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Map Reference: 63°5'14"N , 50°40'41"W
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