Field work on Precambrian rocks in the Buksefjorden region, southern West Greenland

Abstract

Four teams took part in field work in the 1976 season, the penultimate in the project started in 1972 to map the 1:100 000 scale Buksefjorden sheet. Chadwick completed mapping Angissorssuaq and surrounding islands; Coe worked between Taserssuatssiat and Alángordlia; Compton mapped between the western part of Taserssuatssiait and Buksefjorden, and Nutman began a detailed study of Amitsoq gneisses and rocks ofthe Akilia association in the Narssaq peninsula and islands to the south and west. As in the first two years of the project, the programme was not run from a GGU base camp, but help from staff at the Itivnera base in Godthåbsfjord is acknowledged. Valuable assistance was also received from officials at Nordafar. We also wish to acknowledge the help given (often under great difficulties) by GGU skipper Flemming Nielsen and his crew and by staff and pilots of Greenlandair Charter AIS.