Gymnosperm woods from the Cretaceous (mid-Aptian) Cerro Negro Formation, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica: the arborescent vegetation of a volcanic arc

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Falcon-Lang, H.J., Cantrill, D.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Academic Press 2001
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Livingston Island; Byers; Byers peninsula; Cerro Negro; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18591/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667101902599

Silicified gymnosperm trunks usually more than 30 cm in diameter and several metres in length occur abundantly in the lower part of the mid-AptianCerroNegroFormation, which crops out on ByersPeninsula, LivingstonIsland, northern Antarctic Peninsula. These fossil woods are found within silicic ignimb...