Biodiversity and palaeoecological significance of tertiary fossil floras from King George Island, West Antarctica

• Main Author: Hunt, Richard John
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Leeds 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Cones The; Cones, The; Dragon Glacier; Hennequin; King George Island; Point Hennequin; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15217/; https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15217/1/511653.pdf

Palaeogene volcanics with plant-bearing sediment intercalations crop out extensively on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica. The plant fossil assemblages are the most complete Palaeogene terrestrial foliar record in Antarctica. Compositional variations in the flora have...