Cenozoic terrestrial palynological assemblages in the glacial erratics from the Grove Mountains, east Antarctica

• Published in: Progress in Natural Science
• Main Authors: Fang, Aimin, Liu, Xiaohan, Wang, Weiming, Huang, Feixin, Yu, Lianjun
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 2009
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Grove Mountains; Glacial erratics; Spores and pollen; Neogene; PLIOCENE SORSDAL FORMATION; PRINCE-CHARLES MOUNTAINS; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; SIRIUS GROUP; LAMBERT GRABEN; VESTFOLD HILLS; ICE-SHEET; STRATIGRAPHY; MARINE; REGION; Materials Science; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Multidisciplinary; Multidisciplinary Sciences; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Lambert Glacier; Prince Charles Mountains; Sirius; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/19400; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2008.01.040

Fossiliferous glacial erratics have been found in moraines of the Grove Mountains, east Antarctica since 1998 by Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHNARE) teams. These erratics were derived from a suite of glaciogene strata hidden beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Lambert glacier...