364 WHITE AND SCHUCHERT—CRETACEOUS SERIES OF GREENLAND. 
tinct than would be inferred from the figures in the “Arctic Flora.” 
Above the Liriodendron bed for several hundred feet few, if any, fossils 
have been found, and the termination of the Atane or Patoot series has 
therefore not yet been located. The dark shales and thin sandstones 
appear to continue upward in a uniform and regular series nearly to 
1,000 feet above tide in strong lithological resemblance to the Upper Cre- 
taceous with marine invertebrates seen at Saviarkat, Kook Angnertunek, 
and Niakornat. 
On ascending the small ravine to the right of the Liriodendron bed,* 
at about 1,000 feet above tide, we find a somewhat heavy and slightly 
conglomeratic sandstone nearly 125 feet in thickness. Dark sandy and 
areillaceous shales, the same beds that, farther east, yield the richly 
phytiferous ironstones (Tertiary bed No. I of Steenstrup) then ensue to 
about 1,200 feet above tide; but in the western ravine the ferruginous 
masses are small and scarce, and no fossils were found in them. At 
1,775 feet above tide the ehales are interrupted by basalts which crown 
a sharp conical spur to the left of the head of the run. The tertiary 
shales and thin sandstones are, however, soon renewed and continue, 
with possible slight basalt interruption, to a height of 2,625 feet above 
tide, when other beds of basalt occur, continuing to 2,770 feet above tide. 
From this level another series of shales extends to the base of the main 
eruptive cap (5,040 feet above tide), no other Sedimenimiics being visible 
in this region. 
The small conical knob, Tertiary bed No. IV of the illustration cited, 
is situated about one mile to the westward, and is composed of the upper 
portion of the Tertiary (“‘ Miocene”) shales and a small remnant of the 
basalt cap. The shales in the lower part of this knob are mostly thin, 
fissile, and black or dark gray. In the rather more arenaceous shales 
about 75 feet below the basalt are found the thin ferruginous layers from 
which a few poor plant fragments were obtained by Steenstrup and the 
writers. The aspect of these plants is more modern than that of the 
typical Atanikerdluk (Tertiary) flora. 
Above the older basalt the light sands and coaly shales appear to be- 
come wedged in the cape to the west of the mouth of the deep river 
valley, though the Tertiary extends for a considerable distance up this 
valley. Hast of this river, which is but little more than eight miles from 
Atanikerdluk, the sedimentary series has disappeared, and the older 
crystallines rise to a height of 2,100 feet above tide. The contrast between 
the Tertiary and basalts on the west and the irregular topography of the 
* Locality no. 2 of sketch, Flora Foss. Arct., vii, p. 244, or frontispiece of same volume. Med- 
delelser om Grénland, y. 
