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pointed out from other places, we have to deal with a super- 

 stratification , not with two series of rocks separated by a 

 fault. Possibly, therefore, the rocks I collected here belong 

 to the Cambrian System. They have, as a matter of fact, a 

 very old appearance. At the very bottom, on the shore, is found 

 a green, dense, hard schist, quite different from the one we 

 shall describe later as typical at Cape Brown and in Hurry 

 Inlet. Above that we find quartzile and hard limestone in huge 

 banks, of a fairly crystalline appearance; also a dark clay- 

 slate. Among the rocks was observed a fine violet-red quarlz- 

 ite, but for which it really looks as if here , at the bottom 

 of the series, the red divisions of the formation had retired 

 to some extent M. 



2. The Older Triassic System (Fleming [nlet Series). Fleming 

 Inlet, which was first made known in detail through the Danish 

 Expedition, is a comparatively broad, open bight between sheer, 

 often perpendicular shores, the cliffs of which shine out in 

 glaring red colours mixed with yellowish white, green, grey, etc. 

 In a few places broad, deep side-valleys open, of which Örsted 

 Dale is the chief. 



The expedition stayed here two days and made several 

 landings, especially on the west shore and at the inmost part 

 of the fjord. In both places were found, partly by me, partly 

 by Hartz, traces of fossils, of which, however, only the last, 

 taken from the slope opposite Pingels Dale, have so far proved 

 determinable. They have not yet been described, but according 

 to a preliminary communication, kindly supplied by Dr. K. 

 Gronwall, they derive from the Triassic Period, of which 

 hitherto no fossiliferous strata are known from Greenland^). 



') In the adjacent Berzelius Mountain, liowever, the mottled and red colours 

 appear most brilliantly (cfr. PI. XI, also Fig. 2 above, showing the 

 bright-coloured, folded layers on Àkerblom I, at the entrance of Segel- 

 eallskapets Fjord). 



-) If we look aside from the Rhaetic beds. 



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