Jurassic sedimentation of the Miers Bluff Formation, Livingston Island, Antarctica: evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb ages of detrital and plutonic zircons

• Main Authors: Herve, Francisco, Faundez, Victor, Brix, Manfred, Fanning, Christopher
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: British Antarctic Survey 2015
• Subjects: Keywords: Bajocian; chronology; detrital deposit; Jurassic; Paleozoic; sandstone; sedimentation; SHRIMP dating; tectonic setting; Triassic; Valanginian; zircon; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Livingston Island; South Shetland Islands; West Antarctica; Rumex Detrital zircon age spectra; Early Cretaceous plutonism; Hurd Peninsula; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Miers; Hurd; Johnsons; Trinity Peninsula; Hurd peninsula; Miers Bluff; Johnsons Dock; Hespérides Point; Antarc*; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/24032

Detrital zircon populations from two sandstone samples from the lower member (Johnsons Dock Member) of the Miers Bluff Formation at Hurd Peninsula have been dated by the Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb method. In one of the samples, zircons as young as early Middle Jurassic (B...