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Tertiary deposits are known also in East-Greenland. In 

 the years 1869 — 1870 the Second German Northpole Expedition 

 brought home from Hochstetters Vorland and the Sabine 

 Island some Tertiary fossils. In the former locality was found 

 in a yellowish or partly brick-coloured, quartzose sandstone, 

 about 63 m. thick, a great many marine fossils, which were 

 however very badly preserved (as casts and moulds) so that only 

 the genera could be determined. 0. Lenz ^), who is of the 

 opinion that these deposits belong to the Miocene, mentions 

 from this locality the following genera: 



Liicina, 

 Cytherea and 

 Venus. 



By a renewed search into the material Тн. Fdchs^) has added 

 a couple of other forms viz. 



Äst arte sp. and 



Pecten sp. 



In the same work Тн. Fuchs gives the result of his 

 examinations of the Tertiary fossils animals which Nathorst, 

 during his expedition to Spitzbergen in the year 1882, had 

 collected East of К о lb ay. The fossils were here found in a 

 sandstone lying between deposits containing impressions of 

 leaves. They were however in a similarly bad state of preserva- 

 tion as the above mentioned fossils from Hochstetters Vorland, 

 and only the genera could therefore be determined, and even 



^) Oskar Lenz: Specielle Darstellung der geologischen Verhältnisse Ost- 

 grönlands. — Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt in den Jahren 1869 

 und 1870. 2. Bd. Ш. Geologie. Leipzig 1874. p. 495. 



') Th. Fuchs : Ueber die während der schwedischen geologischen Expedi- 

 tion nach Spitzbergen im Jahre 1882 gesammelten Tertiärconchylien. p. 5. 

 — Bihang tili K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar. Bd. 8. Nr. 15. Stock- 

 holm 1883. 



