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New palynological analysis of samples from 13 offshore wells on the Canadian Margin and six wells on the West Greenland Margin has led to a new event biostratigraphic framework for Cretaceous-Cenozoic strata of the Labrador Sea - Davis Strait - Baffin Bay (Labrador-Baffin Seaway) region. This framework is based on about 150 dinoflagellate cyst taxa and 30 acritarch, algal, fungal and plant microfossil (mostly miospore) taxa. In the systematics we include three new genera of dinocysts (Scalenodinium, Simplicidinium and Taurodinium), 16 new species of dinocysts (Chirop - teridium gilbertii, Chytroeisphaeridia hadra, Cleistosphaeridium elegantulum, Cleistosphaeridium palmatum, Dapsilidinium pseudoinsertum, De flan drea borealis, Evittosphaerula? foraminosa, Gingi - nodinium? flexidentatum, Hystrichosphaeridium quadratum, Hystrichostrogylon digitus, Impletosphaeridium apodastum, Scalenodinium scalenum, Surculosphaeridium convocatum, Talladinium pellis, Taurodinium granulatum and Trithyrodinium? conservatum), four emendations of dinocyst genera (Alterbidinium, Chatangiella, Chiropteridium and Surculosphaeridium), six new combinations for dinocyst species (Alterbidinium biaperturum, Deflandrea majae, Kleithriasphaeridium mantellii, Simplicidinium insolitum, Spongodinium grossum, Spongodinium obscurum), one new acritarch species (Fromea quadrangularis), one new miospore species (Baculatisporites crenulatus) and one new combination for miospores (Tiliaepollenites crassipites). Most of the taxa included provide age information, almost exclusively last occurrences (range 'tops'), but some are useful mainly for environmental interpretations. Collectively, they provide a powerful tool for helping to establish the geological history of the Labrador-Baffin Seaway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a case study of spectral gamma-ray characterisation of the deltaic Cretaceous Atane Formation in Nuussuaq Basin, Greenland. It states that gamma-ray logs are used for lithology indicator and petrophysical model which are emitted by three elements such as potassium, thorium, and uranium. The case study reportedly fails to resolve the grain-size variation of the formation because of the presence of the elements.

The article focuses on a study on the geological development of the Femern Bælt area between Denmark and Germany. The study involves 170 samples from 46 wells that have been fully cored in the pre-Quartenary deposits. Processes used in the study are biostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy. Several events in the geological development of the area are mentioned which include erosional episodes in the Selandian deposits, clastic marine sedimentation and deposition.

The article describes the Palaeogene deposits on several localities on Wollaston Forland, Sabine Ø and Hold with Hope in North-East Greenland in 2010. It believes that the Palaeogene sediments in the areas comprise Paleocene and earliest Eocene strata with hiatus that could span the major part of the Selandian and Thanetian. It also notes that the age of the underlying Cretaceous deposits east of the fault in Haredal is Early-Middle Campanian.

The article presents a lithostratigraphic description of the Cretaceous-Paleocene Nuussuaq Group, Nuussuaq Basin in West Greenland. According to the author, the Nuussuaq Basin is a complex of interrelated rift basins that stretches from the Labrador Sea to northern Baffin Bay. These basins developed due to the opening of the Labrador Sea during the late Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic period. The Nuussuaq Group comprises ten formations which include the Kome Formation, the Upernivik Næs Formation, the Atana Formation and the Agatdal Formation.