Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene foraminiferal assemblages from Seymour Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Badaró, Victor C.S., Petri, Setembrino
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Weddell; Seymour; Seymour Island; Hobbs; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102019000294; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102019000294

Abstract Here we describe new microfossil assemblages for the Miocene Hobbs Glacier Formation and the first possibly indigenous assemblages for the Plio-Pleistocene Weddell Sea Formation on Seymour Island, West Antarctica. The assemblages are composed mainly of foraminifers, but radiolarians, calcit...