260 Frof. A. E, Nordenshwld — Geology of Spitzhergen, 



3. Cape Heer. — Leaving the strata marked 1 and 2 in the profile 

 given above, and advancing along the steeply-sloped shore terrace, 

 20 to 30 feet high, eastwards towards Green Harbour, we pass first 

 a number of strata of slate and sandstone, mostly vertical, but some- 

 times also horizontal or bent in saddle form, in which. I could not 

 find any other fossils than a piece of shale of considerable size with 

 an impression of Iris latifolia, Heer. Nearer Green Harbour there 

 occurs again a hard sandstone, overlain by a black sandy slate, in 

 which the cone of Araucarites before mentioned was found. Farther 

 inwards there is a low flat, through which runs the so-called Eussian 

 Eiver, which a short distance from the shore cuts through the strata 

 belonging to the Jurassic formation. East of Green Harbour there 

 are, however, to be found other Miocene strata, namely, at Cape 

 Heer. The succession of strata at this point are as given below : — 



—9— 4 1 4 



Fig. 15. — Profile of Strata at Cape Heer. 



1. (Lowest) A Coal-seam lying at the water's edge, from which the whale 

 fishers who visit this region obtaia the little supply of fuel which they require for 

 cooking, 1 metre. 



2. Black slates with trace of Taxodium, 0*4 m, 



3. Coarse and irregular sandstone, with impressions of some leaf-trees, 0"1 m. 



4. Coarse-graiued conglomerate, consisting of flint nodules closely agglomerated, 

 varying in thickness from 2*5 to 6 m, 



5. Sandstone mixed with clay, pretty rich in vegetable impressions, 1-3 m. 



6. Evenly splitting sandstone without vegetable impressions, 7 m. 



7. A thin seam of Coal, lying iu clay-slate and a loose gravelly sand. The three 

 strata together, 1*5 m. 



8. Hard, evenly splitting sandstone, 10 m. 



9. Hard sandstone, with very large, ill -preserved plant impressions (similar to the 

 sandstone from the ravine on the Coal Mount on Bell Sound), 2 m. 



10. Conglomerate, 0-3 m. 



11. Sandstone irregularly stratified, alternating with small limestone seams. The 

 sandstone contains here and there black spots resulting from inconsiderable remains 

 of plants, 7 m. 



12. Sandstone irregularly stratified and joined with inconsiderable plant impressions, 

 20 m. 



13. Sandy clay-slate, in which I found two impressions of mussels, which, however, 

 it was impossible more completely to determine, 25 m. 



14. Eecent gravel, washed down from the mountain, which covers the series of 

 strata just described. 



The fossils in these strata are commonly ill-preserved, and cannot 

 be compared with the vegetable impressions from the Taxodium 

 strata at Cape Staratschin. A complete description by Heer will be 

 given in the "Transactions of the Academy of Science" (Stockholm). 

 In some preliminary notices of the fossil plants collected by us on 

 Spitzbergen in 1872 and 1873 (Ofvers. af Vet. Akad. Forh. 1874, 

 6. 32), Heer says of the plants from this place: — "There occur 



