Facies and depositional processes in an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous pelagic sedimentary sequence, Antarctica

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Author: Whitham, A. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 1993
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Nordenskjöld; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518120/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1993.tb01767.x

The Nordenskjöld Formation (?Oxfordian-Berriasian age) is exposed on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, where it consists of interbedded ash layers and biosiliceous mudstones which accumulated under anaerobic to dysaerobic bottom waters. The mudstones were deposited by pelagic settling and t...