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Annahme nicht irren, dass die marinen Tertiärlager Spitzbergens 

 und Ost-Grönlands in demselben Meere abgelagert wurden.» 



During the Swedish expedition to North-east Greenland, in 

 the year 1899, conducted by A. G. Nathorst, some locahties 

 with Tertiary deposits were also visited. In the map which 

 accompanies Nathorst's important work on the geology of 

 North-east Greenland M, Tertiary is stated to be found in the 

 following places: Hochstetters Vorland, Pendulum Is- 

 land, Sabine Island, Flache Bay, and Jackson Island. 

 As a new locality is here added Pendulum Island. Nathorst 

 found here a shaly sandstone, and sand and clay covered over 

 by basalt-sheets. No fossils were found; Nathorst nevertheless 

 supposes these deposits to be Tertiary. On the other hand he 

 is doubtful as to the existence of Tertiary at Flache Bay; he 

 found nothing here to indicate it, but is more inclined to be- 

 lieve in the occurrence of the Jurassic at this place. 



Besides the above named observations on Tertiary deposits 

 in the Arctic regions, we find in literature also other occur- 

 rences stated, but these statements have partly proved to be 

 wrong, and partly they are founded upon exclusively plant- 

 bearing deposits, and are therefore of less interest to the 

 subject which is treated here. 



We have already stated the most important part of what 

 little was hitherto known about marine Tertiary deposits in 

 those parts of the northern Arctic-sea. The news was there- 

 fore received with great interest that the Danish expedition to 

 the East coast of Greenland in the year 1900, brought home a 

 collection of partly well preserved marine Tertiary-fossils from 

 Кар Dalton, After the return of the expedition, I was 

 charged with the examination of this material. As however, 

 there is in Copenhagen a want of the material required for 



') A. G. Nathorst: Bidrag till nordöstra Grönlands geologi. — Geolog. 

 Foren, i Stockholm Forhandl. Bd. 23. Stockholm 1901. S. 275—306. 



