The Weddell Sea Formation: post−Late Pliocene terrestrial glacial deposits on Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Andrzej Gaździcki, Andrzej Tatur, Urszula Hara, Rodolfo A. Del Valle
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Cockburn; Cockburn Island; Ross Island; Seymour; Seymour Island; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.626.7439; http://www.polar.pan.pl/ppr25/ppr25-189.pdf

ABSTRACT: A sequence of glacial deposits up to 4 m thick unconformably overlies the Eocene La Meseta Formation on the Seymour Island plateau (meseta) and forms a litho− stratigraphically distinct unit in the succession of the James Ross Basin, which is formally named here as the Weddell Sea Formatio...