450 Prof. Nordenskiold — Expedition to Greenland. 



upon a red gneiss, with a tendency to break off in scaly flakes, thus 

 forming rounded hills on the shore. Nearest to the gneiss, at an 

 inconsiderable distance from the strand, a little above the level 

 of the water : 



(1) (Lowest) Hard sandstone, unfossiliferous (60 feet). 



(2) Carbonaceous slate, with sandstone and coal-bands, interstratified with thin 

 layers of leaves of Coniferas (30 feet). 



. (3) Hard red and white sandstone (300 feet). 



(4) Red sandstone, with bands of slate and evident ripple marks (30 feet). 



(5) Hard grey sandstone, almost like porphyry, inclosing round nodules of small 



stones and fragments of coal (100 feet). 



(6) Alternating layers of sandstone and carbonaceous slate, with seams of coal, 

 layers of harder slate, impressions of leaves, etc. (100 feet). 



(7) Black slate and grey sandy slate with sandstone veins, no fossils (300 feet). 



(8) Sandstone of uniform yellow colour, the upper part, for a depth of 200 

 feet, interstratified with grey slate, sandstone, and coal seams (300 feet). 



(9) Basalt. 



2. Angiarsuit. — Yellow sandstone, interstratified with grey slate, 

 with seams of coal and impressions of plants ; the same stratum as 

 No. 8 (Fig. 9) at Ekkorfat. At Ekkorfat the strata, with the ex- 

 ception of occasional irregularities, dip towards S.W., so that nearer 

 Karsok the yellow sandstone (8) reaches to the level of the sea. 

 We thus had an opportunity of collecting fossils from this stratum, 

 at a place called by the natives Angiarsuit, which, however, decidedly 

 belong to the same formation as the fossils from the lower strata at 

 Ekkorfat. 



3. AvhmsaTc. — Fine impressions of plants are found here, near the 

 shore, immediately under the sandstone, in horizontally-stratified 

 slate, 



4. Karsoh. — The coast-land here, as has been mentioned above, is 

 occupied by gneiss rocks, which, at a height of eight or nine hundred 

 feet, are covered by a layer of slate containing fine impressions of 

 ferns. The slate is, .however, soon covered by gravel, so that the 

 formation here is exposed only for a very limited distance close to 

 the Karsok river. 



5. Pattorfih. — For a distance of six English miles from Karsok the 

 coast-land towards the fjord is occupied by gneiss ; but on the other 



. side of the river, at Pattorfik, first slate strata and then sandstone 

 reappear close to the shore, — the first with particularly beautiful 

 fossils, found principally in the beds nearest the gneiss. No exten- 

 sive sections are however to be met with here, for the perpendicular 

 exposed cliff, some yards above the surface of the sea, is covered with 

 detritus of basalt, often hardened to a tuff-like mass, and inclosing 

 the large subfossil shells mentioned above. 



6. Kome or more properly Kook.— The former name, though 

 grammatically wrong, ought however to be retained, as having been 

 already introduced into science. The lowest portion of these strata 

 forms on the shore an abruptly-terminated terrace of 80 to 150 feet 

 high. Higher up the strata terminate in a gravel -covered slope. 



