A Dendrochronological Investigation of Influences on Tree Growth in the Permian and Triassic, Antarctica

• Main Author: Dahlseid, Aidan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Shackleton; Shackleton Glacier; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://archives.gac.edu/cdm/ref/collection/irstudents/id/4188

Dendrochronology is applied to Permian and Triassic fossil wood from the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. This time interval, marked by greenhouse warming and culminating in the end-Permian mass extinction, may provide an analogue for present-day climate change. The fossil material stud...