West Greenland
Precambrian crustal evolution and Cretaceous–Palaeogene faulting in West Greenland: A lead isotope study of an Archaean gold prospect in the Attu region, Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland
... T his paper presents a lead isotope investigation of a gold prospect south of the village Attu in the northern part of the Nagssugtoqidian orogen in central West Greenland. T he Attu gold prospect is a ...
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Review of Survey activities 2009: Zircon record of the igneous and metamorphic history of the Fiskenæsset anorthosite complex in southern West Greenland
... part of the North Atlantic craton and is a layered intrusion consisting of gabbro, ultramafic and anorthositic rocks that was deformed during multiple episodes of folding and meta- morphism (Myers 1985). We collected ...
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Thin-layer effects in glaciological seismic amplitude-versus-angle (AVA) analysis: implications for characterising a subglacial till unit, Russell Glacier, West Greenland
... the West Greenland Ice Sheet and (b) an alternative suggestion for a till structure beneath an Antarctic ice stream, compared to that proposed by Peters et ...
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Review of Survey activities 2004: Detection of kimberlitic rocks in West Greenland using airborne hyperspectral data: the HyperGreen 2002 project
... At the same time, a field programme was carried out to mea- sure a number of spectra from selected kimberlite occur- rences to establish the spectral characteristics of the kimberlitic rocks and their erosion products in ...
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Review of Survey activities 2015: Palaeovalleys at the basal unconformity of the Palaeoproterozoic Karrat Group, West Greenland
... of West Greenland, reworked Archae- an gneisses are overlain by supracrustal successions of the Palaeoproterozoic Karrat Group, defined by Henderson & Pulvertaft (1967) as comprising two formations: the ...
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Review of Survey activities 2003: Low-pressure metamorphism during Archaean crustal growth: a low-strain zone in the northern Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland
... One of the first detailed accounts of Precambrian supra- crustal rocks in central West Greenland came from a small group of islands and skerries a few kilometres north-east of Aasiaat (Fig. 1). In 1948, K. ...
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Review of Survey activities 2012: Lineament mapping and geological history of the Kangerlussuaq region, southern West Greenland
... How could future ice ages affect deep nuclear waste reposito- ries in crystalline basement rocks? Deep repositories may be affected by a number of glacially induced processes includ- ing, but not limited to, (1) fault ...
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Review of Survey Activities 2005: The Tikiusaaq carbonatite: a new Mesozoic intrusive complex in southern West Greenland
... of West Greenland where alkaline rocks have not hitherto been ...km west- south-west of the Tikiusaaq carbonatite, and the southern- most of the Maniitsoq kimberlites at least 150 km to the ...
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Review of Survey activities 2006: A multi-disciplinary study of Phanerozoic landscape development in West Greenland
... the Greenland craton has been much less stable in the Phanerozoic than previously ...the West Greenland mountains were formed by late Neogene tectonic uplift ...
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Review of Survey activities 2008: Using spectral mixture analysis of hyperspectral remote sensing data to map lithology of the Sarfartoq carbona tite complex, southern West Greenland
... southern West Greenland green tundra vegetation and lichen consti- tute a major challenge for remote sensing applied to map sur- face mineralogy and lithology ...
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Review of Survey activities 2004: Greenstone belts in the central Godthåbsfjord region, southern West Greenland
... (GEUS) initiated a study of the origin and tectono-meta- morphic evolution of greenstone belts and important regio- nal structures in the central Godthåbsfjord region, southern West Greenland (Fig. 1; ...
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Are seasonal calving dynamics forced by buttressing from ice mélange or undercutting by melting? Outcomes from full-Stokes simulations of Store Gletscher, West Greenland
... Straneo, F., Hamilton, G. S., Sutherland, D. A., Stearns, L. A., Davidson, F., Hammill, M. O., Stenson, G. B., and Rosing-Asvid, A.: Rapid circulation of warm subtropical waters in a major glacial fjord in East ...
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Review of Survey Activities 2005: Using zircon geochronology to resolve the Archaean geology of southern West Greenland
... Until recently, in situ U-Pb zircon geochronology could be carried out only using ion microprobes, requiring lengthy analysis times of c. 20 minutes. However, new developments in laser ablation inductively coupled plasma ...
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Hydrological and meteorological investigations in a periglacial lake catchment near Kangerlussuaq, west Greenland – presentation of a new multi-parameter dataset
... tively short period of the year when unfrozen water is present and can be monitored. In this work, we present hydrological data obtained from a detailed site investigation performed within the framework of the ...
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Lithostratigraphy of the Cretaceous–Paleocene Nuussuaq Group, Nuussuaq Basin, West Greenland: Plate 3
... The Kangilia Formation (tilted relative to overlying formations) is erosionally overlain by the Agatdal Formation and the Abraham Member of the Eqalulik Formation..[r] ...
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Greenland from Archaean to Quaternary, Descriptive text to the 1995 Geological Map of Greenland 1:2 500 000, 2nd edition
... Turonian Kanguk Formation in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Near the base of this formation there are oil- prone, marine shale source rocks which, however, in this area are thermally immature (Núñez-Betulu 1993). If the ...
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Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland: Colophon, abstract, introduction, official place names in Greenland
... the West Green land dialect and that of East Greenland, and the consequent varied spelling of Greenlandic place ...East Greenland forms, rather than the ‘incorrect’ variations introduced in the ...
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Annual Greenland accumulation rates (2009–2012) from airborne snow radar
... the Greenland Ice Sheet through increasing surface melt, emphasizing the need to closely monitor its surface mass balance in order to improve sea-level rise ...recent Greenland accumulation rates using ...
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Avaliação da eficácia e tolerabilidade da vigabatrina na síndrome de West.
... de West (SW) é uma epilepsia grave específica da infância, que se caracteriza pela tríade: espasmos em salvas, deterioração ou atraso neuropsicomotor e hipsarritmia ao eletre n c e f a l o g r a m a ...
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Raised BMI cut-off for overweight in Greenland Inuit – a review
... cut-off points inappropriate (8). Thus, the mean popula- tion level of BMI is lower in Asian than in European and US populations while the prevalence of type-2 diabetes is high (8,9). Also, a high level of mean ...
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