Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . is clastic series could not be determined,even within the region visited, because it reached backunder the ice-cap, there were abundant grounds forthe belief that it is but a narrow skirting belt. It wasseen to be interrupted at fr
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . is clastic series could not be determined,even within the region visited, because it reached backunder the ice-cap, there were abundant grounds forthe belief that it is but a narrow skirting belt. It wasseen to be interrupted at frequent points by the com-ing of the crystalline series to the shore. At otherpoints, bays and valleys were observed to reach backacross the clastic belt to the crystalline series clastic series embraces three distinenishablemembers. The lowest is a red sandstone which at- 450 Northward over the Great Ice tains a thickness of perhaps one thousand to fifteenhundred feet. Lying conformably upon the red sand-stone is a somewhat thicker series of pinkish-greysandstone. Reposing conformably upon the pinkishsandstone, lies a deep series of more thin-bedded sand-stones and shales of reddish-brown and dark conformity of the three sandstone series amongthemselves suggests that there may be no vitaldistinction between them, and that they represent a. HAKLUYT ISLAND. consecutive sedimentation reachinor a total thicknessof four or five thousand feet perhaps. Unfortunatelythe series is extremely barren of fossils. While it isby no means safe to assume the entire absence offossils ; while, indeed, it is perhaps safer to assumetheir presence, they are very rare, or else circum-scribed in their distribution within the reo^ion remain grounds for hope that sufficient fossilswill ultimately be found to determine the age or the Appendix 451 ages of the series. The whole group has usually beenreferred, with doubt, to the Tertiary age, because ofthe presence of rocks
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