Late Miocene paleoenvironment of the Lambert Glacier embayment, East Antarctica, evident from: mollusc paleontology, sedimentology and geochemistry

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Whitehead, Jason M., Ehrmann, Werner, Harwood, David M., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Quilty, Patrick G., Hart, Charles, Taviani, Marco, Thorn, Vanessa, Mcminn, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Battye Glacier; East Antarctica; Greenland; Lambert Glacier; McLeod; Prydz Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; East Greenland; glacier; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/156/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.07.003

The Upper Miocene (10.7–9.0 Ma) Battye Glacier Formation was deposited 250 km inland from the modern Amery Ice Shelf edge in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. The composition of clay minerals distinguishes a Lower Member, which reflects regional erosion of Precambrian metamorphic basement, from an Upper M...