Sedimentary record of explosive silicic volcanism in a Cretaceous deep-marine conglomerate succession, northern Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Hathway, B., Kelley, S.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Association of Sedimentologists 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Sobral; Cerro Negro; Larsen Basin; Sobral peninsula; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20574/; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00307.x

Lower Cretaceous conglomeratic strata exposed on southern Sobral Peninsula were deposited on a deep-marine apron in the back-arc Larsen Basin close to its faulted boundary with the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc. The succession is dominated by amalgamated beds of clast-supported conglomerate, whic...