Tsunami-generating rock fall and landslide on the south coast of Nuussuaq, central West Greenland

2002 ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stig A. Schack Pedersen ◽  
Lotte Melchior Larsen ◽  
Trine Dahl-Jensen ◽  
Hans F. Jepsen ◽  
Gunver Krarup Pedersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Rock Fall ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
The South ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North West ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
The Village

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Schack Pedersen, S. A., Melchior Larsen, L., Dahl-Jensen, T., Jepsen, H. F., Krarup Pedersen, G., Nielsen, T., Pedersen, A. K., von Platen-Hallermund, F., & Weng, W. (1). Tsunami-generating rock fall and landslide on the south coast of Nuussuaq, central West Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 191, 73-93. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v191.5131 _______________ During the afternoon of 21 November 2000 the village of Saqqaq in central West Greenland was hit by a series of giant waves. Ten small boats were destroyed, but luckily neither humans nor dogs were killed. The following day a police inspection by helicopter revealed that the giant waves were caused by a major landslide at Paatuut, c. 40 km north-west of Saqqaq on the south coast of Nuussuaq (Figs 1, 2). The landslide deposits were dark grey-brown in colour, in marked contrast to the snow-covered slopes, and protruded as a lobe into the Vaigat strait. Along the adjacent coastlines the snow had been washed off up to altitudes about 50 m a.s.l. and severe damage had been caused at the abandoned coal-mining town Qullissat on the opposite side of Vaigat.

scholarly journals An investigation of the igneous rocks on Hareøen and western Nûgssuaq, West Greenland

1971 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
N Hald
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Igneous Rocks ◽  
South Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Basaltic Lavas

Hareøen is an island north-west of Disko in western Greenland. It has the form of a plateau, whose highest point - 512 metres - is found near the south coast. Like the neighbouring parts of Nugssuaq and Disko, Hareøen consists chiefly of Tertiary basaltic lavas. The island first attracted attention on account of the presence of interbasaltic, coal-bearing sediments on the north-east coast. These were already examined by Giesecke in 1811 (Giesecke, 1910) and later among others by Steenstrup (1874) and B.E. Koch (1959). A petrographie investigation of the basalts was first undertaken by Holmes (1919), who described loose fragments rich in K2O. Lavas from the south coast, colleeted and analysed by Pedersen (1970), also have a high content of potash. V. Miinther in the years 1948-49 untertook geological mapping of the island, on which the present investigation is supported (Miinther, in press).

scholarly journals Geological map of Atanikerdluk and environs, 1:10 000

1960 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
B.E Koch ◽  
K.R Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Senior Author ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Junior Author ◽  
Geological Map

The unravelling of the geology of the Atanikerdluk arca is one product of the geological investigations which since 1951 have been carried out along the south coast of the Nûgssuaq peninsula under the Geological Survey of Greenland. The complex of investigations which under the leadership of professor A. Rosenkrantz were concentrated on the geological map Nûgssuaq, and which necessitated the unravelling of the geological conditions of the whole West Greenland sedimentary area in outline, led the senior author of this paper to the Tertiary occurrences of the territory round Atanikerdluk in 1951. Since, there has been worked in this field in the summers of 1952, 1954, and 1956 (B. Eske Koch 1955 and 1959). In 1956 the junior author commenced an investigation of the Cretaceous sequence along the south coast of the Nûgssuaq peninsula to obtain a micropaleontological-stratigraphical cronology.

“The Island on the Middle” The Domains of Wayang Golek Menak: The Rod-Puppetry of Central Java

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Robert S. Petersemi
Keyword(s):  
South Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Village ◽  
As If

Before my performance of wayang golek menak (a rod-puppet performance of Islamic legends) Pak Narto, my teacher in Central Java, was trying to dress me for the role of a dhalang, the puppeteer of a wayang. He tugged down on the batik sarong, already wrapped low about my waist, and pulled at the dress hat and jacket that pinched my head and bound my shoulders, as if he could have concealed that I was anything more or less than a large American in Javanese dress. That evening, in the village of Gombong on the South coast of Central Java, I would perform a demonstration of wayang golek menak. I had only arrived a few months before to undertake my research with Pak Narto and was hastily prepared to perform for a celebration surrounding the wedding of his wife's cousin. After my brief demonstration, there would be an all night wayang performance by Pak Narto's brother, Pak Kuswanto.

scholarly journals Kos Astypalaia

1898 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Duncan Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
The Village

From the modern town of Kos, on the site of the ancient capital at the north-east extremity of the island, to the village of Kephalos at the southwest end is a ride of eight hours.The village stands on a chalky plateau which beyond the isthmus marks the beginning of the mountain district of south-west Kos. This in turn is a repetition on a smaller scale of the mountain region, at the other end of the island, which forms the lofty termination to the long central tableland. The highest points of the mountain district are towards the south-east where the fall to the sea is very rapid. The highest neighbouring peak, Mount Ziní, is about an hour distant from the village in a south-easterly direction, while all that lies to the north-west of the main range is high pastoral country with many torrent beds.

scholarly journals New methods for the geological analysis of Tertiary volcanic formations on Nuussuaq and Disko, central West Greenland, using multi-model photogrammetry

1992 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
A.K Pedersen ◽  
K.S Dueholm
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Eruption ◽  
Field Work ◽  
South Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Model Method ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Clastic Sediments ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Flow Directions

A series of experiments with multi-model photogrammetry were made during the compilation of a 80 km long section along the south coast of Nuussuaq. The section covers a range of Tertiary volcanic lithologies which overlie Mesozoic to Tertiary clastic sediments. The multi-model method allows the geological analyses of flat-lying lithologies in steep or inaccessible terrain and the compilation of detailed sections, profiles, and block diagrams. Drawing of sections or maps is combined with accurate structural measurements to document the flow directions of both subaerial and subaqueous volcanic units and to demonstrate syn-and post-volcanic basin movements and the location of volcanic eruption sites. Multi-model photogrammetry experiments made by compiling the geology of areas already covered by field work has led to major new discoveries. Similar experiments made on areas, which had not been visited in the field before the compilation, but which were visited later, demonstrates that the method is an important new tool in geological reconnaissance.

A Homestead Moat at Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire

1946 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Audrey Williams
Keyword(s):  
Outer Edge ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The Village ◽  
Western Half

A small moated site in Scales Park near the village of Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire (fig. 1), has lately been examined by the Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works. It lies just within the Hertfordshire-Essex boundary, four miles north-east of Buntingford and eight miles north-west of Bishop's Stortford. On the O.S. 6-in. sheet (Herts. 9 NE.) it is marked as The Warren, but not as an antiquity; nor is it included among the 139 homestead moats recorded for the county by the Royal Commission.Scales Park comprises something over 400 acres of well-grown woodland on the plateau which forms the watershed of the rivers Stort and Quin, both flowing south to join eventually the Thames. Its height above sea-level is 450 ft. on the northwest, declining gently to 400 ft. on the east and south. Geologically the area consists of chalky clay over the chalk.The moat of the Warren, enclosing an approximately square island about a quarter of an acre in size, varied in width from 10 to 25 ft. and at the time of excavation was filled with black boggy silt. Round its outer edge ran a low much-spread bank, 20 to 30 ft. wide but not more than 2 ft. high. The enclosure presented a puzzling combination of mounds and hollows. A large mound, 9 ft. 6 in. high, on a raised platform occupied the north-eastern half. The south-western half had centrally a similar platform, 5 ft. above the surface of the moat, with flanking mounds, 6 and 7 ft. high, at the corners (pl. xxiv b). The cavities between the mounds were practically level with the moat; slight ridges barred the western hollow and the south end of the eastern hollow.

XXI.—The Geology of St Kilda

1935 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
North West ◽  
Extreme Length ◽  
The Village

St Kilda (Pl. V), the largest of a group of four islands located some 50 miles west of Harris in Latitude 57° 49′ N., Longitude 8° 34′ W., has an extreme length and breadth of 2½ by 1¾ miles and a circumference of about 8¾ miles. The highly indented coast-line is guarded by almost impregnable cliffs except in the Village Bay or Loch Hirta where there is a strip of sand a quarter of a mile long backed by a great storm-beach. The two principal inlets of the sea, Village Bay or Loch Hirta, and the Glen Bay open to the south-east and north-west respectively.

scholarly journals Rb-Sr whole-rock measurements of the Kap York meta-igneous complex, Thule district, North-West Greenland

1980 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
F Kalsbeek ◽  
P.R Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Igneous Rocks ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Precambrian Basement ◽  
The South ◽  
Igneous Complex ◽  
Basic Composition ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North West ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
Rock Suite

The Precambrian basement af the Kap York - Melville Bugt region is high-grade gneiss, composed af both orthogneisses and paragneisses, in which several units af metasedimcntary and meta-igneous rocks occur. The largest Occurrence af igneous rocks that has rctaincd magmatic aspect is the Kap York meta-igncous complcx which is composed af a rock suite af acidic to basic composition occupying thc wholc af the Kap York peninsula (fig. 8). On the Tectonic/Geological map of Greenland (Escher, 1970) the Kap York rocks were included in the Prolcrozoic Nagssugtoqidian orogenic complex which, elsewhere to the south in Greenland, yields K-Ar ages between 1790 and 1650 m.y.

scholarly journals Volcanic marker horizons in the upper part of the Maligât Formation on eastern Disko and Nuussuaq, Tertiary of West Greenland: syn- to post-volcanic basin movements

1992 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
L.M Larsen ◽  
A.K Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The South ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North West ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
The North ◽  
Volcanic Pile ◽  
Sloping Surface

Lavas from the Rinks Dal, Nordfjord and Niaqussat Members of the Maligat Formation overlying gneisses in eastern Nuussuaq are described together with an overlying young sequence of basalts not known from other areas. The Niaqussat Member lavas are the first recorded from Nuussuaq. On Disko lavas of the Nordfjord and Niaqussat Members have been found on the highest mountain tops bordering the Sermersuaq ice cap, and these two members are now known to have been present over the whole of Disko and eastern Nuussuaq. East of the Disko Gneiss Ridge the base of the Niaqussat Member forms a fairly smooth, gently south-easterly sloping surface that can be extrapolated to Nuussuaq. Eruption sites for the Nordfjord and Niaqussat Members are centred in western Disko, but feeder dykes east of the Disko Gneiss Ridge are indicated, especially for the Niaqussat Member in both Disko and Nuussuaq. There is evidence from several levels within the volcanic pile of relative subsidence in the south-east and uplift in the north-west, and these movements must have taken place in an extended period both during and after the volcanic activity.

The Michigan Expedition to North-West Greenland, 1932–33

Polar Record ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
R. Belknap
Keyword(s):  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The South ◽  
International Polar Year ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North West ◽  
Base Camp ◽  
International Polar ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The University ◽  
Inland Ice

The University of Michigan Pan-American Airways Greenland Expedition had its base camp, known as Peary Lodge in memory of America's greatest Polar explorer, on the west.coast of Greenland in Lat. 74° 19′ N. The station was located at the base of the Upper Nugssuak Peninsula just 2 miles from the inland ice on the south-east and 3 miles from the ice on the east. This station was maintained for the period from August 1, 1932, through July, 1933. This year was the Second International Polar Year and the expedition was the American representative in Greenland.

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