Marine molluscan constraints on the age of Cretaceous fossil forests of Alexander Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Authors: Kelly, S. R. A., Moncrieff, A. C. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1992
• Subjects: Alexander Island; Fossil Bluff; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518619/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800008499

New evidence, provided by bracketing marine molluscan faunas, suggests a Late Albian age for fossil forests in the upper part of the Fossil Bluff Group of Alexander Island. These in situ forests are underlain by Late Aptian and Late Albian strata containing faunas including ammonites (the last of wh...