Geology of the Theron Mountains, Antarctica

• Main Author: Brook, D
• Other Authors: na
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: QE Geology; Theron Mountains; Tilting; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/13243/1.hassmallThumbnailVersion/Brook1972PhD.pdf; http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/13243/; http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/13243/1/Brook1972PhD.pdf

The oldest rocks exposed in the Theron Mountains are an approximately 700 m. thick sequence of terrestrial, water-lain elastic sediments. They consist largely of arkosic, feldspathic and quartzitic fine-grained sandstones and siltstones with thin shales and mudstones and subordinate carbonaceous bed...