Campanian-Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) stratigraphy of the James Ross Island area, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Crame, J.A., Pirrie, D., Riding, J.B., Thomson, M.R.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 1991
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ross Island; Seymour; Seymour Island; Marambio; Vega Island; Cape Lamb; Sandwich Bluff; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; James Ross Island; James Ross Island group
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519694/; https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.148.6.1125

One of the most important outcrops of uppermost Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) sedimentary rocks in the southern high latitudes occurs within the James Ross Island group, northeastern Antarctic Peninsula. These rocks comprise a 1500–2000 m thick sequence of predominantly shallow marine clastic...