Provenance and Alteration of the Triassic Fremouw and Falla Formations, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

• Main Author: Vavra, Charles L.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Polar Studies, The Ohio State University. 1984
• Subjects: Beacon Supergroup; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarctica; Falla Formation; Fremouw Formation; Antarctic; Cumulus Hills; Falla; Pacific; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/48692

The Fremouw and Falla Formations are part of a thick sequence of alluvial sediments that accumulated in a foreland basin (foredeep) between the Antarctic craton and the Gondwanian orogen, an Andean-type mountain belt along the Pacific margin of Gondwana. This study examines the petrology of Fremouw...