Upper Oligocene to lowermost Miocene strata of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica : stratigraphy, facies analysis, and implications for the glacial history of the Antarctic Peninsula
The Cape Melville Formation (CMF), exposed on southeastern King George Island, South Shetland Islands, provides rare evidence of extensive earliest Miocene glaciation in the Antarctic Peninsula region. The formation records the presence of regional marine-based grounded ice on the continental shelf....
Published in: | Journal of Sedimentary Research |
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Society for Sedimentary Geology
2002
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17460/ |