12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland

Update: 2020-09-15

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In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about geological mapping in the most inaccessible part of Greenland – north Greenland – in the mid to late 1970s.

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In Channel

31: Allen Nutman: A lifelong love of making geological maps

2021-01-2615:05

30: Bjørn Thomassen: Chasing gold in wild weather, North-West Greenland

2021-01-1917:42

29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shoulders

2021-01-1211:12

28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east Greenland

2021-01-0512:48

27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical map

2020-12-2910:54

26: Bjørn Thomassen – Stalked by a polar bear in East Greenland

2020-12-2210:58

25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast Greenland

2020-12-1509:21

24: Allen Nutman – “Faraway places with unpronounceable names” – dating Greenland’s ancient rocks

2020-12-0825:38

23: Bjørn Thomassen: Vertical fieldwork – exploring the niobium-tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt Intrusion

2020-12-0118:20

22: Bjørn Thomassen – Mining the Black Angel

2020-11-2424:11

21: Niels Henriksen: Reaching remote western North Greenland – mapping the Thule region

2020-11-1714:23

20: Allen Nutman: “What if the boundary is folded?” – figuring out the structure of Earth’s ancient crust

2020-11-1014:08

19: Kent Brooks: “Nanoq! Nanoq!” Close encounters with polar bears in East Greenland

2020-11-0313:08

18: Agnete Steenfelt – The beginnings of systematic geochemical exploration of Greenland

2020-10-2713:18

17: Allen Nutman: “Paired for life” – the beginning of a career mapping the oldest rocks in the world

2020-10-2018:04

16: Kent Brooks: Discovering gold in the Skaergaard intrusion

2020-10-1318:51

15: Agnete Steenfelt – Exploring for uranium in East Greenland in the 1970s

2020-10-0611:30

14: Bjørn Thomassen – One Man Expedition in East Greenland

2020-09-2909:28

13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”

2020-09-2208:18

12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland

2020-09-1513:51

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12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland

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12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland

Julie Hollis

12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland