Abstract
A major transgression took place in East Greenland in late Permian times. The resulting marine basin can be traced over 400 km, from Jameson Land in the south to Wollaston Forland in the north. More than 300 m of limestone, evaporite, shale and sandstone were deposited in mainly shallow marine and hypersaline lagoonal environments. The lateral facies changes are rapid and very complex and seem to some extent to have been controlled by older tectonic structures formed during an important mid-Permian phase of block faulting. A widespread black shale facies is a good source rock for oil and the Permian and Lower Triassic sequence must be characterized as attractive from the point of view of exploration.
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Surlyk, F., Piasecki, S., Rolle, F., Stemmerik, L., Thomsen, E., Wrang, P. (1984). The Permian base of East Greenland. In: Spencer, A.M. (eds) Petroleum Geology of the North European Margin. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5626-1_22
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