Deformation history of a Mesozoic forearc basin sequence on Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Doubleday, P.A., Storey, B.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Pacific; Alexander Island; Fossil Bluff; George VI Sound; LeMay Range; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503991/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0895-9811(97)00032-1

The Mesozoic Fossil Bluff Group of Alexander Island contains trench-slope and forearc basin deposits that formed during the eastward subduction of oceanic crust beneath the Antarctic Peninsula region. The oldest rocks of the group were deposited in the Early to Middle Jurassic on the upper trench sl...