Sedimentological and Geochemical Analysis of Deep-Water Deposits in the Mojón De Hierro Formation at Arroyo Garrido, Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Patagonia, Argentina

• Main Author: McNall, Natalie Beatrice
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: UWM Digital Commons 2019
• Subjects: Chemical Index of Alteration; Deep-water deposits; Late Paleozoic Ice Age; Mojon de Hierro Formation; Paleo-oxygenation; Permian; Climate; Geochemistry; Geology; Patagonia; Argentina; South Pole; Ellsworth Mountains; Garrido; Mojón; Ice Sheet; South pole
• Online Access: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/2226; https://dc.uwm.edu/context/etd/article/3231/viewcontent/McNall_uwm_0263m_12505.pdf

The Earth has had multiple Phanerozoic glacial intervals but the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) was its longest and most extensive, lasting from the Late Devonian (~372 Ma) until the Late Permian (~254 Ma). The LPIA is the last complete climate shift from a greenhouse to icehouse and back to a greenh...