Shelf, Coastal and Subglacial Polar Carbonates, East Antarctica

• Published in: Carbonates and Evaporites
• Main Authors: Rao, CP, Goodwin, ID, Gibson, JAE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Northeastern Science Foundation Inc 1998
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geochemistry; Organic Geochemistry; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Loken; Loken Moraines; Prydz Bay; The Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03176591; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/15046

Modern and Pleistocene polar carbonates occur in East Antarctica in shelf, coast, lakes and marginal to underneath glaciers, associated mainly with glacigene muds, boulder tills and diamictites. Shelf carbonates (in Prydz Bay) are calcitic and unlithified, and consist mainly of sponges, bryozoans, e...