BROWN ON NOURSOAK PENINSULA, &€. 479 



Section southward along the Shore at Kudlisaet. 



1. Alluvium and debris of rock from cliffs behind; 20 feet. 



2. 5 feet : brown gritty sandstone. 



3. 14 inches : hard grey sandstone. 



4. 1 foot : hard sandy shale, with vegetable impressions, &c. 



5. 14 inches of poor coal, exposed by men attempting to work 

 it at a place where a little stream breaks through the strata. 



6. Shales, 2 to 3 feet. 



7. Hard sandstone, 3 feet. 



8. Shales, sandstones, &c., irregular ; 2 feet. 



9. Hard sandstone, 1 foot. 



10. Shales, 2 feet. 



11. Hard grey sandstone, with pieces of coal in it. About 

 14 feet of this is exposed. The dip is here 45° to the N., strike 

 E. across the Waigat. Scattered along the beach and on the slopes 

 are great blocks of breccia-like material, apparently the peculiar 

 basalt referred to already (see p. 470), which have rolled from the 

 mountains. 



Geology of Heer^s Creek. — In the stream, called by Dr. Brown 

 '* Heer's Creek," a little north of the last locality, Mr. Andersen, 

 of Ritenbenk, had found fossil stems. Gudeman, who had accom- 

 panied him, soon pointed them out. They were lying in frag- 

 ments in the stream, mixed up with pieces of sandstone containing 

 impressions of leaves. The stems were much broken, but their 

 dicotyledonous character was quite apparent. The section where 

 these stems had rolled down (as it afterwards appeared) out of the 

 coal, showed, from the level of the stream upward, the following 

 beds : — 



1. (Bottom) 4 feet: splintery shales; 2. 1 foot: hard gritty 

 sandstone ; 3. 4 feet : mixed shales and sandstone ; 4. 1 foot : 

 coal; 5. 1 J foot : shale, with faint impressions of leaves, stems, 

 &c. ; 6. 2-| feet : coal enveloping siliceous stems lying apparently 

 horizontally E. and W. and N. and S. (Mag.), in fragments ; 

 brownish outside ; mostly without the bark ; 7. Shales, 18 inches; 

 8. Sandstone, with leaves, &c., 3 feet ; 9. Thin soft shale ; 10. 

 1 foot: coal; 11. 4 feet : shale, soft and splintery; 12. 1 foot: 

 coal ; 13. 3 feet : soft, splintery, brownish shales ; 14. Whitish 

 gritty sandstone (?) ; 15. Soil. 



(P. 42.) The Miocene strata seem to continue down the coast 

 to very near Godhavn, and coal appears at various places. At 

 one place, called Skandsen (The Battery) by the Danes, appear 

 regular basaltic columns. The north-east of Godhavn is built on 

 a low syenitic island. Syenite also appears on the oi)posite side 

 on the main island, backed by great fells of trap rising to the 

 height of between two and three thousand feet. 



No calcareous beds have as yet been met with in either the 

 Miocene or the Cretaceous strata of Greenland ; and they appear 

 to have been of freshwater origin. 



