Sandstone detrital modes and basinal setting of the Trinity Peninsula Group, northern Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula: a preliminary survey

• Main Author: Smellie, John L.
• Other Authors: McKenzie, Garry D.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1987
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Graham Land; Hope Bay; Trinity Peninsula; Legoupil; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522975/; https://doi.org/10.1029/GM040p0199

Sandstone detrital modes for a representative sample of the Trinity Peninsula Group in northern Graham Land are described and assessed. Whereas the volumetrically dominant quartz and feldspar were derived principally from erosion of a plutonic and high‐rank metamorphic terrane, the lithic population...