From Narsarsuaq, the southernmost airport in Greenland, the Ikka fjord is 5 hours boat trip away.
Eriksfjord formation redbeds
Our captain enjoyed speeding full steam towards icebergs and steer clear at the last second
Timing needs to be right to get through the narrow shallows
Local musk ox welcoming us as we arrive to the hut at Ikka
A hike from Ikka to Grønnedal via Turistkløft.
Drone mapping of ikaite columns
Basalt boulder with anorthosite xenoliths and plagioclase megacrysts
Jernhat in Grønnedal, next to the 1950 drilling site.
A black calcite and biotite rich lamprohyre (?) boulder
Xenolitsø and Upper Series Syenites
Calcite carbonatite outcrop
Sodalite vein in nepheline syenite
On a good day, the ikaite columns are visible almost all the way to the bottom
Veins with blue sodalite, acicular aegerine and burbankite
Erik's field uniform
The geophysicists are kicked off to set up GPS monuments
The arctic fox was busy with other things
Sodalite vein in coarse-graines nepheline syenite, with a beautiful selvage.
The vikings were here before us.
Our jolly group of Paul Seaman, myself, Gabrielle Stockmann and Erik Sturkell