Comparing the Weathering Environment of Permian and Modern Antarctic Proglacial Lake Sediments: Mineralogical and Geochemical Study

• Main Author: Brewster, Shelby
• Other Authors: Lyons, W. Berry
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The Ohio State University 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hoare; Lake Hoare; McMurdo Dry Valleys; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/80763

The Antarctic continent has been in a polar to subpolar position since the Permian period. Although it has experienced milder climates over this time period as evidenced by corals in the fossil record, Antarctica did undergo extensive glaciation during the Permian. This is based on the abundance of...