High palaeolatitude record of Late Maastrichtian – Early Danian climate change, Seymour Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: Frost, Peter Alan
• Other Authors: Andersen, Jens
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Exeter 2017
• Subjects: Antarctica; Seymour Island; Cretaceous; Maastrichtian; James Ross Basin; Climate Change; Stable Isotope; Marambio; Seymour; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31183

The Latest Cretaceous period was characterised by global cooling, superimposed on this pattern of climate change were perturbations in global climate. In high palaeolatitude settings in the Southern Hemisphere short term glacial episodes may have occurred through the latest Cretaceous. The extensive...