The Byers Basin: Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonic and depositional evolution of the forearc deposits of the South Shetland Islands and its implications for the northern Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: International Geology Review
• Main Authors: Bastias Silva, Miguel Joaquin, Calderón, Mauricio, Israel, Lea, Hervé, Francisco, Spikings, Richard Alan, Pankhurst, Robert, Castillo, Paula, Fanning, Mark, Ugalde, Raúl
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550; Tectono-stratigraphical evolution; Weddell Sea; South Shetland Islands; Antarctic Peninsula; Jurassic; Cretaceous; Basin evolution; Antarctic; Anchorage; Weddell; Byers; Larsen Basin; Snow Island; Alexander Islands; Cape Wallace; Antarc*; Low Island
• Online Access: https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:122764

This paper addresses the Jurassic–Cretaceous stratigraphic evolution of fore-arc deposits exposed along the west coast of the northern Antarctic Peninsula. In the South Shetland Islands, Upper Jurassic deep-marine sediments are uncomformably overlain by a Lower Cretaceous volcaniclastic sequence tha...