The Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Byers Group, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: revised stratigraphy and regional correlations

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Hathway, B., Lomas, S.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Anchorage; Pacific; Byers; Cerro Negro; Chester Cone; President Beaches; Start Hill; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504048/; https://doi.org/10.1006/cres.1997.0095

The Byers Group, exposed in the western South Shetland Islands, is a thick (at least 2.7 km) succession recording Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous sedimentation and volcanism on the Pacific flank of the Antarctic Peninsula magnetic arc. At least 1.3 km of marine clastic rocks are overlain by 1.4 km of...