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Picrite from
Østerfjeld, Qaarsut, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Type:Picrite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Picrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Østerfjeld, Qaarsut, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1295602
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1295602:1
GUID (UUID V4):2dde4009-cc8f-462e-b112-b47e46dd12d5
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Lower Tertiary Vaigat Formation on Nuussuaq, central West Greenland Asger Ken Pedersen, Lotte Melchior...crustal rocks of magmas ranging in composition from picrite to evolved basalt. Some of the basalts were erupted...Member fonn subaeriallava flows in western Nuussuaq. Central Nuussuaq constituted a marine embayment in which...which indicate water depths ofup to 160 m. Eastern Nuussuaq was a gneiss highland with a more than 700 m high...conglomerates in the sea where the north coast of Nuussuaq is now situated. A. K. P, Geological Museum,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concemed with Tertiary basalts from West and Bast Greenland, one concemed with the Upper Palaeozoic succession...in eastem North Greenland and one with Upper Permian foraminifers in Bast Greenland. The first article...a description of the dykes and sills in Bast Greenland from the sediment areas that lie between the plateau...Upper Permian foraminiferal assemblages from Bast Greenland which suggests a broad correlation ofthe Wagener...drowning event in the Wandel Sea Basin, eastem North Greenland. (Photo: L. Stemmerik.) ©GElJS,Copenhagen, 1996
Journal (issue)
quantities of minerals have been sent home from Greenland. These minerals originate from different sources...material has naturally been collected in East Greenland by the numerous expeditions of later years, whereas...increase the size of the hook. As far as West Greenland is concerned, the geological conditions are rather...which chiefly occur in the southernmost part of Greenland. As elsewhere, the occurrences of minerals in...formations may be of interest in this respect. The Greenland pegmatite veins do not seem to be particularly
 
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