Lithofacies and origin of the buckeye formation: Late paleozoic glacial and glaciomarine sediments, Ohio range, transantarctic mountains, Antarctica

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Aitchison, J. C., Bradshaw, M. A., Newman, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 1988
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Palaeontology; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; 1911 Palaeontology; Transantarctic Mountains; Ohio Range; Discovery Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:ba7277c

Up to 300 m of glaciogenic late Paleozoic Buckeye Formation rest unconformably upon an erosional surface cut on, and in places through, early Devonian Horlick Formation in the Ohio Range, Antarctica. The diamictite exhibits a gradual transition upsection from direct glacial to subsequent glaciomarin...