Kalsbeek, FeikoThrane, KristineHiggins, A KJepsen, HLeslie, ANutman, AllenFrei, Robert2015-12-130072-1069http://hdl.handle.net/1885/82557The Caledonian orogen of East Greenland contains remnants of Archean, Paleoproterozoic, late Mesoproterozoic, and early Neoproterozoic rocks that occur within far-traveled thrust sheets, and bear witness to a complex polyorogenic history of the region prior to Caledonian orogenesis. Archean and Paleoproterozoic complexes consist mainly of granitoid orthogneisses. A succession of Paleoproterozoic tholeiitic metabasalts is present in some of the foreland windows. A major unit of late Mesoprotero zoic metasedimentary rocks (Krummedal supracrustal sequence) contains early Neoproterozoic (ca. 950 Ma) as well as Caledonian granites. There is evidence for Archean (ca. 2800-2600 Ma), Paleoproterozoic (2000-1750 Ma), and late Grenvillian (ca. 950 Ma) deformation and metamorphism, but Caledonian overprinting complicates the study of these events. This paper presents a broad overview of the various rock units with structural, geochemical, and geochronologic data. The Paleoproterozoic metabasaltic rocks from the foreland windows are described in more detail.Keywords: Archean; Caledonian orogeny; deformation mechanism; foreland basin; geochemistry; geochronology; metamorphism; metasedimentary rock; orogeny; orthogneiss; overprinting; Proterozoic; structural geology; tectonic evolution; thrust fault; Arctic; East Greenl Caledonian orogen; East Greenland; Grenvillian granites; Mesoproterozoic supracrustal rocks; Paleoproterozoic basement200810.1130/2008.1202(03)2016-02-24