The Fauna and Biostratigraphy of the Jurassic Latady Formation, Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Author: Hikuroa, Daniel Carl Henare
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: ResearchSpace@Auckland 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Latady; New Zealand; Orville; Orville Coast; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/286

The Latady Formation is a suite of Middle to Late Jurassic (170 – 140 Ma) sedimentary rocks situated in the southeastern region of the Antarctic Peninsula near where the break-up of Gondwana probably began. Latady Formation strata comprise a ~2.8 km thick sequence of black and grey shale and siltsto...