Ice‐marginal environment and ecosystem prior to initial advance of the late Palaeozoic ice sheet in the Mount Butters area of the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Isbell, John L., Miller, Molly F., Babcock, Loren E., Hasiotis, Stephen T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2001
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2001.00403.x; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-3091.2001.00403.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2001.00403.x

Basal rocks of the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian Pagoda Formation at Mount Butters provide an unusual view of periglacial conditions in the central Transantarctic Mountains region prior to the initial advance of the Gondwanide ice sheet. These rocks were deposited on a high relief unconformit...