The Scythian Wordie Creek Formation crops out on the east coast of Greenland and the working area covers c. 6000 km². Data consists of detailed (1:100) sedimentary logs, photo sections, gamma ray logs and 3D mapping of sandbodies. In Late Permian and Early Triassic the basin was in a situation of thermal relaxation following extension and subsidence was mainly thermal (Surlyk, 1990). The thickness of the mainly marine succession varies between c. 170 m up to c. 700 m depending primarily on the location of the sections relative to synsedimentary faults trod subbasins exerting strong control on sedimentation.

The end-Permian eustatic sea level fall resulted in exposure of Permian sediments in the relatively uplifted parts of the fault blocks leading to incision of valleys up to 250 m wide. The P/T boundary is at most localities an unconformity overlain by Triassic fluvial or turbidite sandstones. In outcrop it is possible to trace the lateral changes within a fault bounded subbasin from proximal fluvial sedimentation to distal sedimentation by clinoform progradation and submarine gravity flows. Distribution and direction of submarine and fluvial channels seems to be controlled chiefly by the fault lineaments in which the channels are situated and eventually incise. At three localities the P/T is a conformable shale-shale contact reflecting deposition in the deeper part of a subbasin with continuos accommodation space. The frequency and distribution of turbidite, tempestite and shoreface sandstones varies within short distances due to this fault controlled segregration of several subbasins.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90937©1998 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah