KRZYSZTOF BIRKENMAJER OLIGOCENE-MIOCENE GLACIO-MARINE SEQUENCES OF KING

• Main Author: George Islano (south Shetland Islands
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Birkenmajer; Cape Melville; Chopin Ridge; Cockburn; Cockburn Island; Destruction Bay; Hennequin; King George Island; Legru Bay; Polonez Cove; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.470.9658; http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/Archive/1987-49_9-36_1-4.pdf

evidence for three Tertiary glaciations, post-dating Late Oligocene plant-bearing beds (po int Hennequin Group) intercalated in andesite lavas K-Ar-dated at about 24.5 Ma. The onset of continental glaciation (ice-sheet at sea level) in King George Island area was close to the Oligocene-Miocene bound...