Latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous age for a fossil flora from the Latady Basin, Antarctic Peninsula
Dating Jurassic terrestrial floras in the Antarctic Peninsula has proved problematic and controversial. Here U–Pb series dating on detrital zircons from a conglomerate interbedded with fossil plant material provide a maximal depositional age of 144 ± 3 Ma for a presumed Jurassic flora. This is the f...
Published in: | Antarctic Science |
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Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Cambridge University Press
2006
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/67/ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102006000290 |