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account by the same author will be found in A. G. NATHORST'S work, 

 "Die oberdevonische Flora des Ellesmere Landes" 1 . I will give such 

 parts of his account as are of interest in this connection. 



The inner part of Goose Fiord is surrounded by slightly oblique 

 mountains, which are mainly composed of sandstone. These however 

 are but seldom seen exposed in precipices and river cuttings. The 

 sandstone, which has a thickness of at least 600 700 metres, falls 

 gently towards the NNW. 



The lowest 300 400 metres of the strata consist of a Hght quartz 

 sandstone, which here and there contains thin banks of conglomerate, 

 only a few decimetres in thickness. The gravel in this conglomerate is 

 small and consists of quartz and ironstone. In Skrap Valley (1) on 

 the west side of Goose Fiord (and above the middle of the sandstone 

 profile at the inner part of the fiord), there is an occurrence of a conglo- 

 merate-like' sandstone, red in some places and grey in others, which in 

 SCHEI'S opinion belongs to the middle portion of the series. It contains 

 a quantity of mussels, numerous fish remains, and indeterminable 

 fragments of plants. The fish remains in this the richest fish bearing 

 horizon, are partly scales of Holoptychius forms, partly fragments of 

 Placoderms. 



Farther to the north the strata of this series were found exposed 

 in two other river cuttings on the west side of the fiord. 



The more southerly one is "Bregnekloften" (2), a little river cutting 

 in which somewhat more than 100 metres of the series can be studied 

 (fig. 4). The main occurrence here is a light quartz sandstone in thick 

 banks. Between these we also find dark, sandy and micaceous schists, 

 thin layers of conglomerate, and anthracite in strips and thin layers. 

 In one lenticular mass of schist, SCHEI found numerous remains of plants, 

 some of which were well preserved. They have been described by 

 NATHORST. Just above this plant horizon, indeterminable fish remains 

 were found in a conglomerate strata. 



These strata must be assumed to lie higher in the series than the 

 fish horizon at Skrap Valley. 



SCHEI found plant-bearing strata (similar to that at Bregnekleften) 

 in a river cutting in Galge Point (3) somewhat farther to the north. 

 In addition to the remains of plants, some fossil fish of considerable 

 interest were collected here. 



1 Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the Fram, No. 1, 1904, 

 pp. 4-9. 



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