The East Greenland Pack-Ice and the Significance of Its Derived Shells

Abstract

8 Lamellibranchiata, 3 Gastropoda, and also Spongida, Bryozoa, Hydrozoa, Algae, pieces of wood, and mud are recorded from pack-ice off the east coast of Greenland. There is evidence that this material was transported on the ice by drift from the No. Siberian coast. Eventual melting of the ice results in deposition cf the shelly muds of Pleistocene age on the sea floor a long distance from their place of origin.