Calcimicrobial-archaeocyath-bearing clasts from marine slope deposits of the Cambrian Mount Wegener Formation, Coats Land, Shackleton Range, Antarctica

The carbonate clasts from the Mount Wegener Formation provide sedimentological, diagenetic and palaeontological evidences of the destruction and resedimentation of a hidden/unknown Cambrian carbonate shallow-water record at the Coats Land region of Antarctica. This incomplete mosaic could play a key...

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Published in:Estudios Geológicos
Main Authors: Rodríguez Martínez, Marta, Perejón, Antonio, Moreno-Eiris, Elena
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: CSIC 2019
Subjects:
Geología estratigráfica
Paleontología
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Coats Land
Mount Wegener
Shackleton
Shackleton Range
Transantarctic Mountains
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/58809/
https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/58809/1/Calcimicrobial-archaeocyath-bearing%20clasts%20from%20marine%20slope%20deposits%20of%20the%20Cambrian.pdf
http://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/1016/0
https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.43586.567
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Summary:The carbonate clasts from the Mount Wegener Formation provide sedimentological, diagenetic and palaeontological evidences of the destruction and resedimentation of a hidden/unknown Cambrian carbonate shallow-water record at the Coats Land region of Antarctica. This incomplete mosaic could play a key role in comparisons and biostratigraphic correlations between the Cambrian record of the Transantarctic Mountains, Ellsworth-Whitmore block and Antarctic Peninsula at the Antarctica continent. Moreover, it represents a key record in future palaeobiogeographic reconstructions of South Gondwana based on archaeocyathan assemblages.

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