Southern high-latitude vegetation and climate change during the Holocene (South Georgia) and Oligocene (Wilkes Land, Antarctica)

• Main Author: Strother, Stephanie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Annenkov Island; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Fan Lake; South Georgia Island; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tundra
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/27303/

Significant climate and vegetation changes have occurred during the Cenozoic era (66 Ma - present), particularly in the southern-high latitudes. The terrestrial record in Antarctica is fragmentary and available successions are limited due to remoteness and thick ice cover. The aim of this study is t...