Haug Range

{{Short description|Mountain range in Greenland}}

{{Infobox mountain range

| name=Haug Range

| other_name=Hauge Bjerge

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| photo_caption=Map of the Nares Strait area.

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| length_km=60

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| width_km = 10

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| highest=Kayser Mountain

| elevation_m=1094

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| period=Lower Silurian

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The Haug Range ({{langx|da|Hauge Bjerge}}){{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19192774|title=Hauge Bjerge|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=15 July 2016}} is a mountain range in far northwestern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of Avannaata municipality. The range is located in Hall Land, one of the coldest places in Greenland.{{Cite web |url=http://www.yr.no/sted/Gr%C3%B8nland/Annet/Hall_Land/ |title=Hall Land (Grønland) |access-date=2016-07-15 |archive-date=2019-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109205600/https://www.yr.no/sted/Gr%C3%B8nland/Annet/Hall_Land/ |url-status=dead }}

This mountain chain was named after Ivar Haug, who compiled the first Gazetteer of Greenland. The area of the range is characterized by Tundra climate.{{cite web|url=http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.html|title=Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification|work=Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11: sid. 1633-1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007|accessdate=15 July 2016}}

Geography

The Haug Range is an up to almost 1,100 m high little glaciated mountain range in Hall Land. It runs roughly from east to west across the peninsula, from the shores of the Nares Strait to the shores of the Newman Bay, separating the unglaciated Polaris Foreland in the north from the southern part of Hall Land.{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19192864|title=Hall Land|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=15 July 2016}} {{convert|1094|m|ft|0}} high Kayser Mountain, the highest elevation of the range, is located at its northeastern end. The area of the Haug Range is uninhabited.Google Earth

Pentamerus fossils dating back to the Lower Silurian have been found in this mountain range.{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00849.x | volume=52 | title=SULCIPENTAMERUS(PENTAMERIDA, BRACHIOPODA) FROM THE LOWER SILURIAN WASHINGTON LAND GROUP, NORTH GREENLAND | year=2009 | journal=Palaeontology | pages=385–399 | last1 = Jin | first1 = Jisuo| doi-access=free }} They belong to the Hauge Bjerge Formation.[https://macrostrat.org/classic/unit_info.php?name_id=9817 Hauge Bjerge Formation - Peary Land Group]

See also

Bibliography

  • [http://www.geus.dk/minex/green-min-2015.pdf Greenland geology and selected mineral occurrences - GEUS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024163648/http://www.geus.dk/minex/green-min-2015.pdf |date=2016-10-24 }}

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