Composition of Holocene lithificates at the slopes of the Untersee Mountain Valley, East Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Levitan, Mikhail A, Kononkova, N N, Luksha, V L, Roshchina, I A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Archive of Ocean Data ARCOD; Antarc*; Antarctica; East Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.811739; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.811739

It was found out that the lower parts of slopes of the Untersee mountain valley (East Antarctica) were locally covered with lithificates (both carbonate-free and carbonate-poor). They occur in three modes: crusts, films, and impregnates. All of them cover Late Pleistocene moraine material and consis...