Late Miocene paleoenvironment of the Lambert Graben embayment, East Antarctica, evident from: Mollusc paleontology, sedimentology and geochemistry

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Whitehead, JM, Ehrmann, W, Harwood, DM, Hillenbrand, CD, Quilty, PG, Hart, C, Taviani, M, Thorn, V, McMinn, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science BV 2006
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Palaeontology (incl. Palynology); Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Battye Glacier; East Antarctica; Greenland; McLeod; Prydz Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; East Greenland; glacier; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.07.003; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/42011

The Upper Miocene (10.7-9.0 Ma) Battye Glacier Formation was deposited 250 km inland from the modern Amery Ice Shelf edge in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. The composition of clay minerals distinguishes a Lower Member, which reflects regional erosion of Precambrian metamorphic basement, from an Upper M...