The geological significance of some Triassic microfossils from the South Orkney Islands, Scotia Ridge

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Authors: Dalziel, I. W. D., Elliot, D. H., Jones, D. L., Thomson, J. W., Thomson, M. R. A., Wells, N. A., Zinsmeister, W. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1981
• Subjects: South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800024766; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800024766

Summary Late Triassic Radiolaria have been recovered from a bedded chert collected early in 1977 in the South Orkney islands. This is the first reliable palaeontological evidence for the age of the so-called basement complex that forms most of the exposed rock of a microcontinent on the southern lim...