Pliocene Nothofagus Wood from the Transantarctic Mountains

• Main Author: Carlquist, Sherwin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 1987
• Subjects: Antarctica; Nothofagus; Pliocene; wood anatomy; Botany; Sirius; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso/vol11/iss4/12; https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1512&context=aliso

Subfossil wood fragments up to 10 cm long and 2 cm in diameter recovered from a locality thought on the basis of diatom deposits to be upper Pliocene-lower Pleistocene (Oliver Bluffs, Sirius Formation, 85°10'S., between 1800 and 1900 m in the Transantarctic Mountains) were sectioned for identif...