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Some selected publications
Christiansen, F. G. 2026: Greenland mineral policy – changes in procedures for exploitation licences. The Polar Journal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2154896X.2026.2628474
Christiansen, F. G. 2026 in press: Chapter 2. Petroleum Exploration History. In: Dam, G. & Sønderholm, M. (eds), Hydrocarbon resource assessment of the sedimentary basins of Greenland using a quantitative risk-based play analysis approach. GEUS Bulletin
Christiansen, F. G. 2025: Can Geopolitics Unlock Greenland’s Critical Materials Treasure Chest? The country’s vast mineral deposits include rare earths. Guest Article. IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/greenland-rare-earth-minerals
Christiansen, F. G. 2024: Grønlands Selvstyre versus Greenland Minerals – Historik, procesforløb, implikationer for fremtidig mineral efterforskning. Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift 101 (1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.7577/nat.5846
Christiansen, F. G., Whitehead, D., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Boserup, J., & Christiansen, O. 2024: Drilling in Greenland – exploration for minerals and petroleum, and scientific projects. The Extractive Industries and Society 17 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101417
Christiansen, F. G. 2023: Grønlands mineral- og olieefterforskningshistorie i internationalt politisk perspektiv. Internasjonal Politikk 81 (1), 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.23865/intpol.v81.4155
Christiansen, F. G. 2022: Greenland mineral exploration history. Mineral Economics https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-022-00350-2
Christiansen, F. G. 2021: Greenland Petroleum Exploration History: Rise and fall, learnings, and future perspectives. Resources Policy 74,102425 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102425
Fyhn, M. B. W., Alsen, P., Bjerager, M., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Christiansen, F. G., Guarnieri, P., Hovikoski, J., Ineson, J., Japsen, P., Nielsen, L. H., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Piasecki, S. Therkelsen, J. & Vosgerau, H. 2021/2025: Central- and North-East Greenland Rifted Margin Composite Tectono-Sedimentary Element, From Onshore East Greenland to the Greenland Sea. In: Drachev, S. and Moore, T. (eds.) Arctic Petroleum Basins.Geological Society of London Memoir 57, 113-125. https://doi.org/10.1144/M57-2017-15
Christiansen, F. G. & Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A. 2021: A web-based Inventory of onshore petroleum seeps and stains in Greenland. GEUS Bulletin 47,6519 https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v47.6519 and web-GIS: https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/JKYXJM
Christiansen, F. G., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Dam, G., Laier, T. & Salehi, S. 2020: Oil and gas seepage in the Nuussuaq Basin, West Greenland – implications for petroleum exploration. GEUS Bulletin 44, 4567 https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v44.4567
Gautier, D. L., Stemmerik, L., Christiansen, F. G., Sørensen, K., Bidstrup, T., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Bird, K., Charpentier, R. R., Houseknecht, D. W., Klett, T. R., Schenck, C. J. & Tennyson, M. E. 2011: Assessment of Northeast Greenland: Prototype for development of Circum-Arctic Ressource Appraisal Methodology. In: Spencer, A., Embry, A., Gautier, D., Stoupakova, A. & Sørensen, K. (eds). Arctic Petroleum Geology. Geological Society of London Memoir 35, 663-672. https://doi.org/10.1144/M35.43
Christiansen, F. G. 2011: Greenland petroleum exploration: history, breakthroughs in understanding and future challenges. In: Spencer, A., Embry, A., Gautier, D., Stoupakova, A. & Sørensen, K. (eds). Arctic Petroleum Geology. Geological Society of London Memoir 35, 647-661. https://doi.org/10.1144/M35.42
Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Bidstrup, T., Christiansen, F. G., Dalhoff, F., Nytoft, H. P., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Pedersen, A. K. & Sønderholm, M. 2007: Petroleum seepages at Asuk, Disko, West Greenland: implications for regional petroleum exploration. Journal of Petroleum Geology 30 (3), 219-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-5457.2007.00219.x
Marcussen, C., Christiansen, F. G., Dahl-Jensen, T., Heinesen, M., Lomholt, S., Møller, J. J. & Sørensen, K. 2004: Exploring for extended continental shelf claims off Greenland and the Faroe Islands – geological perspectives. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 4, 61-64. https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v4.4786
Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Nytoft, H. P. & Christiansen, F. G. 2004: Age of oils in West Greenland: was there a Mesozoic seaway between Greenland and Canada. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 4, 49-52. https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v4.4783
Mathiesen, A., Bidstrup, T. & Christiansen, F. G. 2000: Denudation and uplift history of the Jameson Land basin, East Greenland – Constrained from maturity and apatite fission track data. Global and Planetary Change 24, 275-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00013-8
Bojesen-Koefoed, J., Christiansen, F. G., Nytoft, H. P. & Pedersen, A. K. 1999: Oil seepage onshore West Greenland: evidence of multiple source rocks and oil mixing. In Fleet, A.J. & Boldy, S. A. R. (eds), Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceeding of the 5. Conference on the Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe, 305-314. https://doi.org/10.1144/0050305
Dam, G., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Christiansen, F. G., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. & Laier, T. 1998: The oldest marine Cretaceous sediments in West Greenland (Umiivik-1, Svartenhuk Halvø) – record of the Cenomanian–Turonian anoxic event? Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 180, 128-137. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v180.5096
Christiansen, F. G., Bojesen-Kofoed, J., Dam, G., Nytoft, H. P., Pedersen, A. K., Larsen, L. M. & Pulvertaft, T. C. R. 1996: The Marraat oil discovery on Nuussuaq, West Greenland: evidence for a latest Cretaceous – earliest Tertiary oil source rock in the Labrador Sea – Melville Bay region. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 44 (1), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.35767/gscpgbull.44.1.039
Dam, G., Surlyk, F., Mathiesen, A. & Christiansen, F. G. 1995: Exploration significance of lacustrine forced regressions of the Rhaetian-Sinemurian Kap Stewart Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland.In Steel, R. J. et al. (edit.) Sequence stratigraphy: Advances and Application for Exploration and Producing in North West Europe. Norwegean Petroleum Society, Elsevier, Amsterdam, NPF Spec. Publ. 5, 509-525. https://DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8937(06)80084-6
Mathiesen, A., Christiansen, F. G., Bidstrup, T., Dam, G., Marcussen, C., Piasecki, S. & Stemmerik, L. 1995: Modelling of hydrocarbon generation in the Jameson Land basin, East Greenland. First Break 13 (8), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.1995017
Christiansen, F. G., Piasecki, S., Stemmerik, L. & Telnæs, N. 1993: Depositional environment and organic geochemistry of the Upper Permian Ravnefjeld Formation source rocks in East Greenland. AAPG Bulletin 77, 1519-1537. https://doi.org/10.1306/BDFF8EDE-1718-11D7-8645000102C1865D
Christiansen, F. G., Larsen, H. C., Marcussen, C., Piasecki, S. & Stemmerik, L. 1993: Late Paleozoic plays in East Greenland. In Parker, J. R. (edit.) Petroleum geology of Northwest Europe, Proceedings of the 4th Conference. The Geological Society of London, 657-666. https://doi.org/10.1144/0040657
Chalmers, J. A., Pulvertaft, T. C. R., Christiansen, F. G., Larsen, H. C., Laursen, K. H. & Ottesen, T. G. 1993: The southern West Greenland continental margin: rifting history, basin development, and petroleum potential. In Parker, J. R. (edit.) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe, Proceedings of the 4th Conference, The Geological Society of London, 915-931. https://doi.org/10.1144/0040915
Stemmerik, L., Christiansen, F. G., Piasecki, S., Andersen, B. E., Marcussen, C. & Nøhr-Hansen, H. 1993: Depositional history and petroleum geology of the northern part of the East Greenland basin. In Vorren, T. O. et al. (edit.) Arctic Geology and Petroleum Potential. Norwegian Petroleum Society, Elsevier, 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-88943-0.50009-5
Christiansen, F. G., Larsen, H. C., Marcussen, C., Hansen, K., Krabbe, H., Larsen, L. M., Piasecki, S., Stemmerik, L. & Watt, W. S. 1992: Uplift study of the Jameson Land basin, East Greenland. Norsk geologisk Tidsskrift 72, 291-294.
Dam, G. & Christiansen, F. G. 1990: Organic geochemistry and source potential of the lacustrine shales of the Late Triassic – Early Jurassic Kap Stewart Formation, East Greenland. Marine and Petroleum Geology 7, 428-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/0264-8172(90)90019-D
Stemmerik, L., Christiansen, F. G. & Piasecki, S. 1990: Carboniferous lacustrine shales in East Greenland – an additional source rock in the northern Atlantic? In Katz, B. (edit.) Lacustrine exploration: case studies and modern analogues. AAPG Memoir 50, 277-286. https://doi.org/10.1306/m50523c17
Piasecki, S., Christiansen, F. G. & Stemmerik, L. 1990: Depositional history and organic geochemistry of Carboniferous lacustrine deposits in East Greenland. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 38 (3), 273-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-88943-0.50009-5
Christiansen, F. G., Olsen, H., Piasecki, S. & Stemmerik, L. 1990: Organic geochemistry of upper palaeozoic lacustrine shales in the East Greenland basin. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1989, Organic Geochemistry 16, 287-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6380(9090048-5
Christiansen, F. G. 1990: A future Arctic exploration target: Lower Paleozoic in North Greenland. Oil & Gas Journal 18 (7), 56-58.
Christiansen, F. G. edit. 1989: Petroleum Geology of North Greenland. Bulletin Grønlands geologiske Undersøgelse 158, 104 pp. https://doi.org/10.34194/bullggu.v158.6700
Christiansen, F. G. & Nøhr-Hansen, H. 1989: The Silurian shales of central and western North Greenland: evaluation of hydrocarbon source rock potential. Rapport Grønlands geologiske Undersøgelse 143, 47-71. https://doi.org/10.34194/rapggu.v143.8057
Christiansen, F. G., Nøhr-Hansen, H. & Nykjær, O. 1987: The Cambrian Henson Gletscher Formation: a mature to postmature hydrocarbon source rock sequence from North Greenland. Rapport Grønlands geologiske Undersøgelse 133, 141-157. https://doi.org/10.34194/rapggu.v133.7984
Christiansen, F. G. 1986: Deformation of chromite: S.E.M. investigations. Tectonophysics 121, 175-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(86)90042-9
Christiansen, F. G. 1986: Structural classification of ophiolitic chromite deposits. In Gallagher, M. J. et al. (edit.) Metallogeny of basic and ultrabasic rocks. Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, London, pp. 279-289.
Christiansen, F. G. & Roberts, S. 1986: Formation of olivine pseudo-crescumulates by axial planar growth during mantle deformation. Geological Magazine 123, 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800026558
Christiansen, F. G. 1985: Deformation fabric and microstructures in ophiolitic chromitites and host ultramafics, Sultanate of Oman. Geologische Rundschau 74, 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01764570