350 GIESECK^, ROCKS AND MINERALS OF S. GREENLAND. 



Minerals. — Quartz, garnet in granite, felspar, massive epidote, 

 siliceous sinter at hot-spring on Ounartok (Island). 



2. From the Igalikko -fjord to the Kangerdluarsuk-fjord (both 

 inclusive), and to the Tunagliarbik-fjord (not included). 

 Localities, Nos. 48-74. 



Rocks. — Granites (white, grey, and red), syenite, gneiss, 

 chlorite-slate, hornblende-slate, red sandstone, basalt, greenstone, 

 claystone, claystone-porphyry, ironclay, weiss-stein, iron-jasper, 

 quartz-rock, horns tone-porphyry. 



Minerals. — Talc, quartz, quartz with chlorite, hornblende, phos- 

 phate of iron, labrador-felspar, green and greenish felspar,* compact 

 manganese in red sandstone, gieseckite and felspar in claystone 

 porphyry (Akulliarasiarsuk, eastern branch of the Igalikko-fjord), 

 calcite, fluor in hornblende-slate at Julianeshaab, green jasper- 

 veins in granite ; with the coarse red granite of Nunarsoout, north 

 coast of the Igalikko-fjord, are graphite in mica-slate, yellow 

 sparry-iron-ore, calc-spar, massive fluor, green massive felspar,* 

 and beds of weiss-stein with sodalite f (mylopsite) and eudiolite. 



3. From Tungaliarbik-fjord to Arksut-fjord (the latter not 

 included). Localities, Nos. 75-107. 



Rocks. — Granites (chiefly grey, both south and north of Cape 

 Desolation), syenite at the fjord and zirkon-syenite at Cape Deso- 

 lation, greenstone, red sandstone, blue schistose jasper. 



Minerals. — Prehnite and red felspar in greenstone, magnetite, 

 skorodite ?, hornblende, apophyllite, phosphate of iron, zirkon and 

 chromate of iron in syenite, labrador and adular felspar in syenitic 

 granite, corundum in granite, blue vein-quartz (at Ilundeoe). 



4. From Arksut-fjord to Fredrikshaab (Pamiut) and to Ikertok 

 Bay. Localities, Nos. 108-189. 



Rocks. — Granite, gneiss, and mica-slate, predominating ; syenite 

 at Arksuts Storoe and Pamiut. 



Minerals. — Green jasper, quartz, allanite (in granite at Kingik- 

 torsoak), talc, precious serpentine and amianthus, axestone, magne- 

 tite in serpentine, moroxite (in mica-slate, Pamiut), garnet (in 

 mica-slate) ; at Ivitaek and neighbourhood (Arksut-fjord), tinstone 

 in vein-quartz, arsenical pyrites, and white, yellow, and earthy 

 cryolite, with sparry-iron-ore, galena, copper-pyrites, quartz, and 

 compact fluor. 



5. From the neighbourhood of Ikertok Bay and Lichtenfels to 

 Buxe-fjord. Localities, Nos. 133-151. 



Rocks. — Granite,^ gneiss, mica-slate, siliceous schist (quartz- 

 slate), hornblende-slate, greenstone, siliceous conglomerate. 



Minerals. — At Fiskernaes : garnets in gneiss, blue quartz, 

 titanite with quartz and calcite, allanite in felspar-veins, sap- 

 phirine in mica-slate and with tremolite and quartz. 



* See Dr. MacCulloch's note, p. 324. 



t See " A Chemical Analysis of Sodalite, a new Mineral from Greenland," 

 by T. Thomson, M.D., &c., Trans. Koy. Soc. Edinburgh. 



X In the northern ? part of this district, for several successive localities, 

 " granite, alternating with quartz and mica-slate " (gneiss ?), seems to pre- 

 dominate. 



