Sedimentary Rocks of the Buckeye Range, Horlick Mountains, Antarctica

27 April 1962

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 136 (3513) , 319-321
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.136.3513.319

Abstract

In the Buckeye Range of the Horlick Mountains, 4000 feet of sedimentary rocks nonconformably overlie a granitic basement and underlie a thick diabasic sill. The sedimentary section consists of Devonian sandstone and shale (Horlick formation), Carboniferous (?) tillite (Buckeye formation), Permian (?) platy and carbonaceous shale (Discovery Ridge formation), and Permian arkose, shale, and numerous coal beds (Mount Glossopteris formation). This apparently is the first report of a Paleozoic tillite in Antarctica.

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