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and sandstones, and some of the strata are fossiliferous. East 
of these rocks he found a sandstone formation, more than 
1500 meters thick the lower beds of which are of a gray colour 
while the upper ones are red-coloured; the beds are on the 
whole horizontal, though in some places no unconformity is 
seen at their base. The upper, red-coloured sandstone contains 
fish-remains (Holoptychius and Asterolepis) which prove that 
it must be classed as Old Red Sandstone. Later than this 
formation, but probably older than the Triassic, is a number 
of igneous rocks rich in alkalies which occur on Cape Parry 
(egirine-syenite, tinguaite), on Cape Fletcher (porphyritic dyke- 
rocks), and in other places; they have been described by Bäck- 
зтвом! and NoRDENSkJÜLD *. 
Carboniferous sediments are wanting in the district north 
of Scoresby Sound (in East Greenland they are only found north 
of 80° N. lat.), but the Triassic system is represented by the 
“Fleming Inlet series” which consists of horizontal beds of 
more or less compact sandstones, shales, and limestones of 
varying colours (partly red)”. The unfossiliferous “Саре Brown 
and Hurry Inlet series” probably also belongs to the Triassic 
(or perhaps to the Permian)*; it comprises a succession of 
conglomerates, sandstones, and micaceous shales; some layers 
of this series are red-coloured while others are gray or green. 
The conglomerates contain pebbles of porphyries which agree 
with the porphyries of the igneous series of Cape Parry and 
Cape Fletcher. Later than these formations is a long succes- 
sion of Rhetic, Jurassic, and Tertiary strata which are as a rule 
fossiliferous and do not contain any red-coloured sandstone 
deposit. Thus in eastern Greenland only two geological systems 
are represented by deposits of red sandstone: on the one hand 
1 Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, XXIII, p. 301 (1901). 
2 0. NORDENSKJÖLD, On the Geology and Physical Geography of East- 
Greenland. Meddelelser om Gronland, XXVIII, p. 196 (1908). 
3 Ibidem, р. 175. 
+ Ibidem, р. 178. 
