Borehole core recovered from the Late Carboniferous to early Permian Fitzroy tillite and Port Sussex formations, Falkland Islands : geological background and sample details

• Main Author: Stone, P.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: British Geological Survey 2011
• Subjects: Black Rock; East Antarctica; Fitzroy; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14415/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14415/1/OR11028.pdf; http://www.bgs.ac.uk

Within the Palaeozoic sedimentary succession of the Falkland Islands the Fitzroy Tillite Formation is the local representative of glacigenic strata deposited widely across Gondwana during Late Carboniferous glaciation. In West Falkland, a terrestrial lithofacies contains a wide range of erratic pebb...