Jameson Land

Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland.

Jameson Land
Eolian sandstone in Jameson Land
Location
Geography
LocationEast Greenland
Coordinates71°10′N 23°30′W
Adjacent bodies of water
Highest elevation1,444 m (4738 ft)
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
ZoneNE Greenland National Park

Geography

Jameson Land is bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sound (the world's largest fjord), to the northwest by the Stauning Alps, to the north by Scoresby Land, to the northeast by the Fleming Fjord and the Nathorst Fjord of the Greenland Sea, and to the east by Carlsberg Fjord, the smaller Liverpool Land peninsula branching off, and Hurry Inlet. Its northeastern end is Cape Biot.

The Mestersvig military base is located in the northern part of the peninsula.

Geology

Jameson Land mainly consists of a tilted peneplain of jurassic sandstone, highest in the east. In the northern end there are also rocks of triassic origin.[1] Two formations are predominant in Jameson Land: the Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation and the Jurassic Kap Stewart Formation. Jameson land triassic fossils of Flamming Fjord Formation include: dipnoi Ceratodus,[2] prosauropod and theropod dinosaurs bones and tracks, sauropod tracks,[3] phytosaurs, temnospondyls, and sharks.[4]

  • Map of Greenland section
  • Tail vertebrae and tibia of a 4 meter long prosauropod dinosaur from Jameson Land, at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen

See also

References
  1. "Geological map of Greenland 1 : 2 500 000". Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  2. Agnolin, F. L., Mateus O., Milàn J., Marzola M., Wings O., Adolfssen J. S., & Clemmensen L. B. (2018). Ceratodus tunuensis, sp. nov., a new lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from the Upper Triassic of central East Greenland. Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e1439834
  3. Lallensack, J. N., Klein, H., Milàn, J., Wings, O., Mateus, O., & Clemmensen, L. B. (2017). Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: evidence for Late Triassic sauropods. Acta Palaeontol Polonica.
  4. Mateus, O., Clemmensen L., Klein N., Wings O., Frobøse N., Milàn J., Adolfssen J., & Estrup E. (2014). The Late Triassic of Jameson Land revisited: new vertebrate findings and the first phytosaur from Greenland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts, 2014, 182.


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