Diatom biostratigraphy and age of the Pliocene Sorsdal Formation, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Harwood, DM, McMinn, A, Quilty, PG
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2000
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Palaeontology (incl. Palynology); Southern Ocean; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Marine Plain; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/19636

Fossil marine diatom assemblages from the Srsdal Formation, a deposit of diatomaceous sand from Marine Plain in the Vestfold Hills, provide age and palaeoenvironmental information from a Pliocene coastal setting in East Antarctica. Benthic and meroplanktic diatom taxa suggest deposition in a shallow...