The first report of a Campanian palaeo-wildfire in the West Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Manfroi, Joseline, Lindner Dutra, Tânia, Gnaedinger, Silvia Cristina, Uhl, Dieter, Jasper, André
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Macroscopic Charcoal; Rip Point; South Shetland Islands; Coniferous Wood; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Nordeste; Silvia; Rip; Nelson Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/10379

The analysis of palaeofloras and the related palaeoecological conditions is of great importance for the understanding of past environmental and palaeoclimatic events in Antarctica. At the end of the Cretaceous, subtropical forests developed there because of wet and temperate climate conditions. On t...