Early Paleozoic sedimentation, magmatism, and deformation in the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica: The significance of the Ross orogeny

• Main Authors: Storey, Bryan C., Macdonald, David I. M., Dalziel, Ian W. D., Isbell, John L., Millar, Ian L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 1996
• Subjects: Pensacola Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515326/; https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0685:EPSMAD>2.3.CO;2

Combined sedimentological, structural, and geochemical studies of a lower Paleozoic succession within the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica, suggest that it probably formed in a foreland basin setting during the Ross-Delamerian orogen, a complex early Paleozoic convergent margin of Antarctica and Aust...