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The article discusses a study that summarises the status of the Continental Shelf Project of the Kingdom of Denmark after the submission for an extended continental shelf in the area to the north of Greenland. Topics mentioned include the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the five partial submissions of the Kingdom of Denmark, and documentation of the sediment thickness in the Northern Deep through modern seismic reflection data.

The article describes a seamless digital map of Greenland. The systematic geological mapping of Greenland has been conducted by the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) for several years. The map's first version was finished in 2012 and plans to be released in various web applications in 2013.

The article presents a geological assessment of the East Greenland margin. It notes that the margin runs for almost 3,000 kilometers (km) from Kap Farvel to Nordostrundingen. It discusses the geology of the margin south of Shannon which holds sub-basalt and post-Paleocene sediments. Assessment of the margin north of Shannon shows that the shelf area is not affected by Tertiary flood basalts, offering a fair to good seismic imaging of Paleocene and older successions.