Nonmarine sedimentation in an Early Cretaceous extensional continental-margin arc, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

• Published in: SEPM Journal of Sedimentary Research
• Main Author: Hathway, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geological Institute 1997
• Subjects: South Shetland Islands; Livingston Island; Byers; Byers peninsula; Cerro Negro
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514483/; https://doi.org/10.1306/D4268617-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D

Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous rocks of the Byers Group, exposed on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, record the expansion of Gondwana-margin continental-arc facies into a marine intra-arc basin. At least 1.3 km of marine clastic rocks are overlain by about 1.4 km of Lower Cretaceous nonmarine vo...