Review of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary sequence on Seymour Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: William J. Zinsmeister
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cross Valley; Lopez; Lopez de Bertodano; Marambio; Seymour; Seymour Island; Sobral; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1030.1867; http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/jgs/139/6/779.full.pdf

SUMMARY: The thick sequence of fossiliferous marine and non-marine sandstones and siltstones on Seymour I. represents the most complete well-exposed section of Upper Cre-taceous to Lower Tertiary rocks known in the Southern Hemisphere. The succession has been divided into the Upper Campanian to poss...