The age of the base of the Gustav Group in the James Ross Basin, Antarctica

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Riding, J.B., Crame, J.A., Dettmann, M.E., Cantrill, D.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Academic Press 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Ross Island; Nordenskjöld; Lagrelius; Lagrelius Point; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504295/; https://doi.org/10.1006/cres.1998.0098

The Lagrelius Point Formation from its type area in north-west James Ross Island, Antarctica has yielded dinoflagellate cysts indicative of an earliest Aptian age. Reworked palynomorphs presumed to be from the Nordenskjöld Formation (Kimmeridgian-Berriasian) were also encountered. The Lagrelius Poin...