Author: Teichert, Curt
Title: Ordovician and Silurian Faunas from Arctic Canada.
Description: Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1937. First edition. Pp. 169; 1 large folding map, 24 black-and-white photo-plates. Contemporary blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo (280 x180 mm). Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24, volume 1, no. 5 by the Danish Expedition to Arctic North America in charge of Knud Rasmusswen. The contents include: General Geology of the Paleozoic Areas - Southampton Island - Melville Peninsula and Iglulik Island - Brodeur Peninsula - Cockburn Land - King William Land; Late Pre-Cambrian Sedimentary Formations of Cockburn Land; General Remarks on Stratigraphy and Correlation: Ordovician - Silurian; Description of the Fossils. Newspaper clipping of Arctic explorer Freuchen Spurns laid in at front - Spurns was a member of the 1924 Thule Expedition that explored Arctic Canada. From the research library of Arthur K. Miller with his bookplate and signature on the front endpaper. Light edge wear to cloth; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

Keywords: Invertebrate paleontology Ordovician Silurian fauna Paleozoic Pre-Cambrian Canada North America Southampton Island Melville Peninsula Iglulik Island Brodeur Peninsula Cockburn Land King William Land Arctic Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24 volu


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