Facies Control on Diagenesis in Frozen Sediments: The Sirius Group, Table Mountain and Mount Feather, Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Dickinson, W, Bleakley, Nerida Lynn, School of Environmental and Rural Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universita degli Studi di Siena, Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide Felice Ippolito 2005
• Subjects: Sedimentology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Sirius; Table Mountain; Mount Feather; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1625

A petrographic study of the Sirius Group from two locations in the Antarctic Dry Valleys shows distinct differences in both the detrital and diagenetic components of the sediments. The predominantly glaciofluvial depositional environment at Table Mtn. produced a sediment with less matrix and better...