The geological significance of some Triassic microfossils from the South Orkney Islands, Scotia Ridge

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Authors: Dalziel, I.W.D., Elliot, D.H., Jones, D.L., Thomson, J.W., Thomson, M.R.A., Wells, N.A., Zinsmeister, W.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1981
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Pacific; South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524668/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800024766

Late Triassic Radiolaria have been recovered from a bedded chert collected early in 1977 in the South Orkney islands. This is the first reliable palaeontological evidence for the age of the so-called basement complex that forms most of the exposed rock of a microcontinent on the southern limb of the...