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back brown-coal, but since the rock here is evidently made up 

 tor the most part of basalt, the conclusion was drawn that his 

 material was only composed of erratic pieces. Our landing at 

 this spot has shown that this was not the case, in that the 

 basalt here really, and richly, in particular in one horizon, 

 contains pieces of charred or petrified wood, and, apart from 

 that, of indurated sediment of probably Tertiary age. But no 

 connected layers were come across in this spot. 



However, this was the case at a few more southerly places. 

 Thus, for instance, at several spots on Turner Sound we could 

 see far extended but not very broad intervening layers in the 

 basalt of schists and light sandstone, in which, however, despite 

 a careful search, we were unable to discover definite petrifac- 

 tions, Hartz, op, cit, p. 162, has already given some account 

 of these investigations. 



What I saw of these rocks was in general strongly meta- 

 morphosed by basalt, yet the stratification seemed to me to 

 point to an intervening layer contemporaneous with it. This 

 applies still more obviously to the most important and largest 

 of these southern occurrences which I found on a terrace-like 

 plateau about 300 m. above the station at C. Dalton. Besides 

 the plant remains, not very well preserved, which have not yet 

 been described, but according to Hartz belong to the ordinary 

 Arctic Tertiary flora, there occurred here numerous remains of 

 Pelecypoda, Gastropoda and Crustacea, which have been de- 

 scribed by J. P. J. Ravn ^); he classes these beds among Eocene, 

 comparing them more exactly with the London Clay, Bagshot 

 Beds and Sables de Cuise. 



The pétrographie types of rock are reported on in Ravn' s 

 work. He distinguishes a coarse whitish sandstone, a brown 

 argillaceous shale with numerous concretions, greenish sand- 

 stone and dark calcareous sandstone, rich in fossils. 



') Medd. om Grenland XXIX, 95—140. 



