Terrestrial paleoecology of the Cretaceous (Early Aptian) Cerro Negro Formation, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: a record of polar vegetation in a volcanic arc environment

• Main Authors: Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Cantrill, David J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology 2002
• Subjects: Botany; Ecology and Environment; Cerro Negro; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13328/; http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/5/491

Nothing is known about the community-scale plant ecology of early Cretaceous volcanic environments in the southern high latitudes. The paleoecology of the early Aptian (119–120 Ma) volcaniclastic Cerro Negro Formation of South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, has been investigated to improve understand...