ISSN 1750-855X (Print) ISSN 1750-8568 (Online) Proceedings of the Shropshire Geological Society No. 4 1984 Contents 1. Bevins, R.E.: The Geology of Northern Greenland ...…………………...………………..… 2 2. Dolamore, L.: Joint Field Excursion with the Black Country Geological Society to Black 4 Country Sites, led by Alan Cutler ….……………………………………………………..… 3. Coope, R.: A Beetle's Eye View of the Ice Age …………………………………………..… 7 4. Pitcher, W.: Granite for Everyman ………………………………………………………..… 9 5. Tarney, J.: Crustal Growth ………………………………………………………………..… 12 6. Brazier, M.: Microfossils in the Lower Cambrian ……………...…………………….…..… 15 7. Jones, D.M.: Field Excursion to the Church Stretton Area, led by John Pauley ..………..… 18 8. Dolamore, L. & Jones, G.: Joint Field Excursion with the Manchester Geological 22 Association to Werrington Anticline, Stoke on Trent, led by David Thompson ……..…..… 9. Jones, G.: Evening Field Excursion to Criggion Quarry, led by Mr. German, with Notes by 24 Mr. Lawrence Crump ………..…………………………………………………………....… 10. Jones, D.M.: Field Excursion to the Tunnel Cement Works, Mold, led by Malcolm 27 Conway ………………………………………………………………….…….....………..… 11. Cowie, J.W.: International Interest in the Wrekin Area ……………….………...………..… 28 Available on-line: http://www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/SGSpublications Issued August 1984 Published by the Shropshire Geological Society ISSN 1750-855X (Print) ISSN 1750-8568 (Online) The Geology of Northern Greenland Dr. R.E. Bevins1 BEVINS, R.E. (1984). The Geology of Northern Greenland. Proceedings of the Shropshire Geological Society, 4, 2-3. The area is a late Proterozoic basin, with sedimentation influenced by a fold belt. The sequences, structures and mineralogies are described, together with their tectonic setting. 1Shrewsbury, UK. E-mail:
[email protected] The field work for this project investigating the This sequence is overlain by sandstone of geology of northern Greenland took three years, Eocambrian age.