Polytechnic of Central London Spitsbergen Manhaul Expedition, 1976

A seven-man party from the Polytechnic of Central London spent from 25 July to 26 August in north-west Spitsbergen. Field work included botanical survey and sampling, recording of human sleep patterns, and the making of a 16 mm colour film. The party had the support facility of a former Scottish fishing vessel, the Copious, which it shared with the Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition. The group landed in the far north of Vasahalvøya on Makarovbreen. Overland glacier journeys were made from Makarovbreen south to Liefdef jorden and Bockf jorden, and from the lower end of Woodf jorden across to Kongsf jorden via Blomstrandbreen—roughly 160 km in all.

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Upernavik 98: reconnaissance mineral exploration in North-West Greenland

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin ◽

10.34194/ggub.v183.5203 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 39-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bjørn Thomassen ◽

Johannes Kyed ◽

Agnete Steenfelt ◽

Tapani Tukiainen

Keyword(s):

Mineral Exploration ◽

Mining Industry ◽

Field Work ◽

Geological Survey ◽

Original Series ◽

West Greenland ◽

North West ◽

One Year

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Thomassen, B., Kyed, J., Steenfelt, A., & Tukiainen, T. (1999). Upernavik 98: reconnaissance mineral exploration in North-West Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 183, 39-45. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v183.5203 _______________ The Upernavik 98 project is a one-year project aimed at the acquisition of information on mineral occurrences and potential in North-West Greenland between Upernavik and Kap Seddon, i.e. from 72°30′ to 75°30′N (Fig. 1A). A similar project, Karrat 97, was carried out in 1997 in the Uummannaq region 70°30′–72°30′N (Steenfelt et al. 1998a). Both are joint projects between the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (BMP), Government of Greenland, and wholly funded by the latter. The main purpose of the projects is to attract the interest of the mining industry. The field work comprised systematic drainage sampling, reconnaissance mineral exploration and spectroradiometric measurements of rock surfaces.

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Mafic igneous rocks and mineralisation in the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen, South-East Greenland: project SUPRASYD 1996

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin ◽

10.34194/ggub.v176.5064 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 66-74

Author(s):

Henrik Stendal ◽

Wulf Mueller ◽

Nicolai Birkedal ◽

Esben I. Hansen ◽

Claus Østergaard

Keyword(s):

Mineral Exploration ◽

Volcanic Rocks ◽

Shear Zones ◽

Field Work ◽

Igneous Rocks ◽

Border Zone ◽

The South ◽

East Greenland ◽

North West ◽

Arc Setting

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Stendal, H., Mueller, W., Birkedal, N., Hansen, E. I., & Østergaard, C. (1997). Mafic igneous rocks and mineralisation in the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen, South-East Greenland: project SUPRASYD 1996. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 176, 66-74. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v176.5064 _______________ The multidisciplinary SUPRASYD project (1992–96) focused on a regional investigation of the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogenic belt which crosses the southern tip of Greenland. Apart from a broad range of geological and structural studies (Nielsen et al., 1993; Garde & Schønwandt, 1994, 1995; Garde et al., 1997), the project included a mineral resource evaluation of the supracrustal sequences associated with the Ketilidian orogen (e.g. Mosher, 1995). The Ketilidian orogen of southern Greenland can be divided from north-west to south-east into: (1) a border zone in which the crystalline rocks of the Archaean craton are unconformably overlain by Ketilidian supracrustal rocks; (2) a major polyphase pluton, referred to as the Julianehåb batholith; and (3) extensive areas of Ketilidian supracrustal rocks, divided into psammitic and pelitic rocks with subordinate interstratified mafic volcanic rocks (Fig. 1). The Julianehåb batholith is viewed as emplaced in a magmatic arc setting; the supracrustal sequences south of the batholith have been interpreted as either (1) deposited in an intra-arc and fore-arc basin (Chadwick & Garde, 1996), or (2) deposited in a back-arc or intra-arc setting (Stendal & Swager, 1995; Swager, 1995). Both possibilities are plausible and infer subduction-related processes. Regional compilations of geological, geochemical and geophysical data for southern Greenland have been presented by Thorning et al. (1994). Mosher (1995) has recently reviewed the mineral exploration potential of the region. The commercial company Nunaoil A/S has been engaged in gold prospecting in South Greenland since 1990 (e.g. Gowen et al., 1993). A principal goal of the SUPRASYD project was to test the mineral potential of the Ketilidian supracrustal sequences and define the gold potential in the shear zones in the Julianehåb batholith. Previous work has substantiated a gold potential in amphibolitic rocks in the south-west coastal areas (Gowen et al., 1993.), and in the amphibolitic rocks of the Kutseq area (Swager et al., 1995). Field work in 1996 was focused on prospective gold-bearing sites in mafic rocks in South-East Greenland. Three M.Sc. students mapped showings under the supervision of the H. S., while an area on the south side of Kangerluluk fjord was mapped by H. S. and W. M. (Fig. 4).

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Qaanaaq 2001: mineral exploration reconnaissance in North-West Greenland

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin ◽

10.34194/ggub.v191.5141 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 133-143

Author(s):

Bjørn Thomassen ◽

Peter R. Dawes ◽

Agnete Steenfelt ◽

Johan Ditlev Krebs

Keyword(s):

Mineral Exploration ◽

Mining Industry ◽

Field Work ◽

Original Series ◽

West Greenland ◽

North West ◽

Ice Caps ◽

High Plateau ◽

Set Up ◽

Inland Ice

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Thomassen, B., Dawes, P. R., Steenfelt, A., & Krebs, J. D. (2002). Qaanaaq 2001: mineral exploration reconnaissance in North-West Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 191, 133-143. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v191.5141 _______________ Project Qaanaaq 2001, involving one season’s field work, was set up to investigate the mineral occurrences and potential of North-West Greenland between Olrik Fjord and Kap Alexander (77°10´N – 78°10´N; Fig. 1). Organised by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (BMP), Government of Greenland, the project is mainly funded by the latter and has the overall goal of attracting the interest of the mining industry to the region. The investigated region – herein referred to as the Qaanaaq region – comprises 4300 km2 of ice-free land centred on Qaanaaq, the administrative capital of Qaanaap (Thule) municipality. Much of the region is characterised by a 500–800 m high plateau capped by local ice caps and intersected by fjords and glaciers. High dissected terrain occurs in Northumberland Ø and in the hinterland of Prudhoe Land where nunataks are common along the margin of the Inland Ice.

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Public knowledge of diabetes in Karen Ethnic rural residents: a community-based questionnaires study in the far north-west of Thailand

International Journal of General Medicine ◽

10.2147/ijgm.s33177 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 799 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Myo Nyein Aung ◽

Aung ◽

Logra ◽

Kannapatch Srithong ◽

Pratumpan Manokulanan

Keyword(s):

Public Knowledge ◽

Community Based ◽

Rural Residents ◽

North West ◽

Far North

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Contemporary landscape burning patterns in the far North Kimberley region of north-west Australia: human influences and environmental determinants

Journal of Biogeography ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01104.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 31 (8) ◽

pp. 1317-1333 ◽

Cited By ~ 61

Author(s):

T. Vigilante ◽

D. M. J. S. Bowman ◽

R. Fisher ◽

J. Russell-Smith ◽

C. Yates

Keyword(s):

Environmental Determinants ◽

North West ◽

Far North

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The Ancient Cart-tracks of Malta

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00025266 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 28 (110) ◽

pp. 91-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

H. S. Gracie

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Soil ◽

Field Work ◽

Present Writer ◽

Small Scale ◽

Far North ◽

South Eastern ◽

Close Proximity ◽

Made In

The barren hill-tops of Malta are scored in many places by ancient ruts cut deeply into the rock. They can be seen also on the slopes and on the lower plains, but less frequently because these areas are normally under agricultural soil. They always occur in pairs from 52 to 58 inches apart and were quite clearly used by vehicles. They have been discussed in print for 300 years but no agreement has been reached on how, when or why they were made or what vehicles used them. In fact, there are as many theories as there are authors. Of these writers only Captain E. G. Fenton and Professor Sir T. Zammit appear to have done any serious field work, and none has published a map. The present writer, therefore, decided to attempt the laborious task of plotting them, making such other observations and measurements as he could. Zammit, in the paper cited, reproduced some excellent photographs from both the ground and the air, to which the reader is referred.Time did not permit an examination of the whole island and few observations were made in the low-lying south-eastern part. A fairly intensive survey was made of the high ground as far north as the Baida Ridge, which joins the northern shores of Ghain Tuffieha Bay and St. Paul’s Bay. Two portions of the map are reproduced here. Where there are a number of parallel tracks in close proximity they are shown on the map as one on account of the necessarily small scale used. The gaps in the routes are mainly due to cultivated patches, and no attempt has been made to bridge them by conjecture.

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Field work in the north of the Ivisârtoq region, inner Godthåbsfjord, southern West Greenland

Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse ◽

10.34194/rapggu.v115.7830 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 115 ◽

pp. 49-56

Author(s):

B Chadwick ◽

M.A Crewe ◽

J.F.W Park

Keyword(s):

Field Work ◽

Geological Survey ◽

West Greenland ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Field Investigations ◽

New Findings ◽

Host Rocks

The programme of field investigations in the north of the Ivisartoq region begun in 1981 by Chadwick & Crewe (1982) was continued in 1982. Julia Park began mapping the Taserssuaq granodiorite, its host rocks and the Ataneq fault in the north-west. Dur team was joined by D. Bellur, Geological Survey of India, nominally as an assistant. In this report we present only summary notes of new findings relevant to the interpretation of the geometry and chronology of this segment of the Archaean crust in southern West Greenland. We use the established terminology for the Archaean rocks of the Godthåbsfjord region.

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Amarna: Urban Manufacture of Luxury Items

Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198803591.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Anna K. Hodgkinson

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Ancient Egypt ◽

Capital City ◽

North West ◽

Far North ◽

The Core ◽

The North ◽

The Far East ◽

Royal Road ◽

The City

Little is necessary in terms of an introduction, since Amarna is one of the best-known settlements of ancient Egypt. The city was founded by pharaoh Amenhotep IV, known from his fifth regal year as Akhenaten, on his move away from Thebes and Memphis to found a new religious and administrative capital city. Akhenaten reigned approximately between 1348 and 1331 BC, and his principal wife was Nefertiti. Akhenaten’s direct successor appears to have been a figure named Smenkhare (or Ankhkheperure) who was married to Akhenaten’s daughter Meritaten. Like Nefertiti, Smenkhare/Ankhkheperure held the throne name Nefernefruaten. For this reason it is uncertain whether this individual was Nefertiti, who may have reigned for some years after the death of Akhenaten, possibly even with a brief co-regency, or whether this was a son or younger brother of the latter. The rule of Smenkhare/Ankhkheperure was short, and he or she was eventually succeeded by Tutankhamun. The core city of Amarna was erected on a relatively flat desert plain surrounded by cliffs on the east bank of the Nile, in Middle Egypt, approximately 60km south of the modern city of Minia, surrounded by the villages et- Till to the north and el-Hagg Qandil to the south. The site was defined by at least sixteen boundary stelae, three of which actually stand on the western bank, past the edge of the modern cultivation. In total, the city measures 12.5km north–south on the east bank between stelae X and J, and c.8.2km west–east between the projected line between stelae X and J and stela S to the far east, which also indicates approximately the longitude of the royal tomb. The distance between stelae J and F, to the far south-west, measures c.20km, and between stelae X and A, to the far north-west 19.2km. The core city, which is the part of the settlement examined in this section, was erected along the Nile, on the east bank, and it is defined by the ‘Royal Road’, a major thoroughfare running through the entire core city north–south.

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Observations on the Internal Structure and Origin of Some Flutes in Glacio-Fluvial Sediments, Blomstrandbreen, North-West Spitsbergen

Journal of Glaciology ◽

10.3189/s0022143000023170 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 13 (69) ◽

pp. 393-400 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M.A. Paul ◽

H.E Evans

Keyword(s):

Internal Structure ◽

Theoretical Distribution ◽

Unfrozen Water ◽

Stress System ◽

Fluvial Sediments ◽

Ice Flow ◽

North West ◽

West Spitsbergen ◽

Distribution Of Stresses

AbstractSome flutes which occur on the surface of a series of glacio-fluvial sediments at the margin of Blomstrandbreen, north-west Spitsbergen, are described. A section in one has revealed a complex internal structure, in which originally horizontal beds have been folded into an anticline whose axis is normal to the ice margin, and whose structure is related to the morphology of the flute.Comparison of the observed deformation with the theoretical distribution of stresses around the base of a subglacial tunnel shows that this deformation could have resulted from How under such a stress system. It is considered that these observations support the hypothesis that flutes are formed when unfrozen, water-soaked materials deform subglacially due to the pressure differences which exist in the vicinity of an ice tunnel formed in the lee of some rigid obstruction to ice flow.

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