Mid-Pliocene diatom and palynological assemblages north-northeast of Cape Adare, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Fleming, R Farley, Barron, John A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1996
• Subjects: 28-274; Antarctic Ocean/CONT RISE; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg28; Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarctic Ocean; Sirius; Adare; Cape Adare; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.681805; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.681805

Microfossil assemblages in Pliocene sediments from DSDP Site 274 (68°59.81'S, 173°2564'E) provide data on the age of the sediments and suggest the presence of Nothofagus (southern beach) in Antarctica during the Pliocene. A suite of 17 samples was collected in an interval from Samples 28-2...