Stratigraphy of the Independence Fjord Group (Proterozoic) of eastern North Greenland

Completion of fieldwork in the Proterozoic sediments of eastern North Greenland allows a lithostratigraphic scheme to be erected. This scheme (Table 1) modifies and formalises the informal scheme proposed earlier (Collinson, 1979). Mapping between Sydpasset and the southern part of Mylius-Erichsen Land (fig. 2) has demonstrated the need to describe the sequence in terms of two areas between which correlation must remain speculative. The intense development of large intrusive sheets of dolerite and granophyre in Vildtland, western J. C. Christensen Land and Heilprin Land makes it necessary to draw a somewhat arbitrary boundary along Independence Fjord and Academy Gletscher (fig. 2). The lack of certain correlation between the two areas does, however, allow the retention