Stratigraphy of the Wisconsin Range, Horlick Mountains, Antarctica
- 29 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 152 (3722) , 637-638
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.152.3722.637
Abstract
The Wisconsin Range consists of a basement complex of granitic and metamorphic rocks unconformably overlain by about 550 meters of Upper Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. The base of the Upper Paleozoic succession is composed of the Buckeye formation, a tillite, which varies in thickness from 80 to more than 140 meters. Overlying the Buckeye formation are the Weaver and Queen Maud formations, with a combined thickness of about 455 meters, characterized by a prolific Glossopteris flora, indicative of a Permian age.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Geology of the Queen Alexandra Range, Beardmore Glacier, Ross dependency, Antarctica;; with notes on the correlation of Gondwana sequencesNew Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1963
- Sedimentary Rocks of the Buckeye Range, Horlick Mountains, AntarcticaScience, 1962