Palynology and Paleobotany of Permo-Triassic Beacon Supergroup at Allan Hills, South Victoria Land, Antarctica: stratigraphical and paleoenvironmental change implications

• Main Author: Corti Valentina
• Other Authors: Corti, Valentina, CORNAMUSINI, GIANLUCA
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Siena 2021
• Subjects: Sedimentology; Palynology; Paleobotany; Antarctica; PAHs; Dendrocrhonology; Permo-Triassic Boundary; Victoria Land; Beacon Supergroup; EPE; paleoenvironmental changes reconstruction; Gondwana; Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica e Sedimentologica; Allan Hills; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1133988; https://doi.org/10.25434/corti-valentina_phd2021

Nowadays the Antarctic continent is almost entirely covered by ice (around 98% of the total land surface) and the conditions are inhospitable for vegetation, apart from very few species such as mosses and lichens. During the geological time however, conditions were very different and the Phanerozoic...