Northeast Greenland detailed by specialists

The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia. Click here for more information.

Boulder, CO, USA - This most recent volume in The Geological Society of America's Memoir series presents an overview of the East Greenland Caledonides within a modern plate-tectonic framework - "summarized as the birth, life, and death of the Iapetus Ocean as recorded on the Greenland margin," says senior editor A.K. (Tony) Higgins of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Accompanying this memoir is a new 1:1,000,000-scale color geological map of northeast Greenland in print and on CD-ROM.

This new analysis of the East Greenland Caledonides, a region that is remote and difficult of access, is based on detailed modern investigations over a period of 30 years by international specialists, mainly under the auspices of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). Most of the chapter authors participated in GEUS-sponsored field work in East Greenland for a number of summer seasons and have numerous publications in international journals to their credit.