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Kayser Mountain

Coordinates: 81°33′15″N 58°58′28″W / 81.55417°N 58.97444°W / 81.55417; -58.97444
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Kayser Mountain
Kayser Bjerg
Kayser Mountain is located in Greenland
Kayser Mountain
Kayser Mountain
Highest point
Elevation1,094 m (3,589 ft)[1]
Coordinates81°33′15″N 58°58′28″W / 81.55417°N 58.97444°W / 81.55417; -58.97444[1]
Geography
LocationHall Land, Greenland
Parent rangeHaug Range
Climbing
First ascentUnknown

Kayser Mountain (Danish: Kayser Bjerg) is a mountain in Hall Land, NW Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. This peak was named after German geologist and paleontologist Emanuel Kayser.

Geography

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Kayser Mountain is located at the eastern end of the Haug Range in northern Hall Land, at the southern limit of the Polaris Foreland. It rises 6 km to the southwest of the shore of the Newman Bay fjord.[2] With a height of 1,094 metres (3,589 ft), Kayser Mountain is the highest elevation of Hall Land and of the Haug Range.[1]

Brachiopod fossils of genus Pentamerus dating back to the Lower Silurian have been found in this mountain.[3]

Map of the Nares Strait area.

See also

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Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ a b c GoogleEarth
  2. ^ "Kayser Bjerg". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  3. ^ Jin, Jisuo (2009). "SULCIPENTAMERUS(PENTAMERIDA, BRACHIOPODA) FROM THE LOWER SILURIAN WASHINGTON LAND GROUP, NORTH GREENLAND". Palaeontology. 52: 385–399. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00849.x.