Tectonic and climatic controls on a Mesozoic forearc basin succession, Alexander Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Authors: Nichols, Gary J., Cantrill, David J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2002
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Citadel Bastion; Coal nunatak; Fossil Bluff; Neptune Glacier; Palmer Land; The Antarctic; The Citadel; Triton; Triton Point; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13598/

The Cretaceous Fossil Bluff Group on Alexander Island, on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, contains a remarkably complete record of the evolution of a forearc basin. The latest (Aptian-Albian) stages in the basin history are recorded in a well-exposed succession at the southern end of the i...