The caves of North Greenland

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This is a free event from the Oxford Geology Trust, but suggested donations of £3 would enable the Trust to continue providing these lectures.

About the event

Paul Smith
Oxford University Museum of Natural History and
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham

 

Large cave entrances are distributed across the whole of North Greenland from 80–82.5°N, an ice-free area larger than England. They constitute the northernmost documented karst caves globally, and data relating to the caves in this remote region have been collected on field expeditions over a 40-year period. The caves preserve an important part of the geological history of North and North-East Greenland that is otherwise absent from the physical geological record, as well as an insight to warm Neogene climates at these high Arctic latitudes.

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