Sedimentary Rocks of the Buckeye Range, Horlick Mountains, Antarctica

In the Buckeye Range of the Horlick Mountains, 4000 feet of sedimentary rocks nonconformably overlie a granitic basement and underlie a thick diabasic sill. The sedimentary section consists of Devonian sandstone and shale (Horlick formation), Carboniferous (?) tillite (Buckeye formation), Permian (?...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Science
Main Author: Long, William E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1962
Subjects:
Discovery Ridge
Glossopteris
Horlick Mountains
Mount Glossopteris
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.136.3513.319
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.136.3513.319
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Summary:In the Buckeye Range of the Horlick Mountains, 4000 feet of sedimentary rocks nonconformably overlie a granitic basement and underlie a thick diabasic sill. The sedimentary section consists of Devonian sandstone and shale (Horlick formation), Carboniferous (?) tillite (Buckeye formation), Permian (?) platy and carbonaceous shale (Discovery Ridge formation), and Permian arkose, shale, and numerous coal beds (Mount Glossopteris formation). This apparently is the first report of a Paleozoic tillite in Antarctica.

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