Latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous age for a fossil flora from the Latady Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-264

  Hunter, Morag A ^a   Cantrill, David J ^b   Flowerdew, Michael J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Antarctica; Biostratigraphy; Palaeobotany

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FLORA; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; SEDIMENTATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; LATADY BASIN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33744948568     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102006000290     Document Type: Article

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