Intermittent euxinia in the high-latitude James Ross Basin during the latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleocene

• Main Authors: Schoepfer, SD, Tobin, T, Witts, JD, Newton, RJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/115304/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/115304/10/1-s2.0-S0031018217300469-main.pdf

Seymour Island, in the James Ross Basin, Antarctica, contains a continuous succession of latest Cretaceous sediments deposited in a shallow marine environment at high latitude, making it an ideal place to study environmental changes prior to the K–Pg mass extinction. We measured major and trace elem...