IDNO

P.88583.PAT

Description

Detail of garnetiferous intrusion of garnet gneiss amongst snow covered landscape of Danish Harbour.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Upernavik; Danish Harbour

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Ritchie, Montague H.W.

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thomson [from James Wordie’s Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land, 1934]

Date

13 - 22 July 1934

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Paterson, T. T., Part 2, Part 3, Geology (no date, circa 1936).
Related text on p. 93 includes:
The Duck Islands: ... The rocks belong to an Archaean gneissic complex of which the most prominent member is a grey quartzose gneiss. Biotitic and garnetiferous bands appear and a striking rock is a dark biotite-garnet schist, especially well developed on the Middle Island (Plate 10). The complex has been invaded by a series of basic intrusives prior to the main folding. ... Later acid pegmatites traverse these rocks and are intimately associated with the strike of the major joints”.
Text on pp. 94-95 includes:
“The West and Middle Islands (Fig. 16 3, Fig. 17 4) Plate 21. ... All three heights are bounded on the south-west by escarpment cliffs running in a direction corresponding to the general strike of the rock. The escarpments are determined by a hard resistant grey garnetiferous gneiss which also forms the headlands that fringe the island”. [JD 8/1/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie ‘An Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land’ in The Geographical Journal Vol. 86, No. 4 (Oct., 1935), pp. 297-313. Text on pp. 299-300 includes:
“... we passed close under Sanderson's Hope late on June 13 and anchored the same night at Upernivik. ... While at Upernivik the geologists were busy, and Paterson also was in constant touch with Greenlanders, making a collection of proverbial sayings and obtaining the details of about thirty string figures. ... We finally sailed from Upernivik on June 22, ” [JD 18/10/2006]

Photographer: Note in above article, page 313, accredits all photographs to M.H.W. Ritchie unless otherwise stated. [JD 18/10/2006]

Place and Date: This photograph appears to have been taken during the Heimen’s visit to Upernivik between 13th - 22nd June, 1934. The photograph appears to be part of a series from “Danish Harbour” although no further information has of yet been found on this place. [JD 25/10/2006]

P.88575.PAT to N.88586.PAT and N.88652.PAT to N.88659.PAT were found in the box now numbered C446/33/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 8/1/2007]