Sandstone

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221Mesozoic / Permian / Supercontinents / Transantarctic Mountains / Antarctica / Cimmerian Plate / West Antarctic Rift / Gondwana / East Antarctic craton / Geology / Physical geography / Historical geology

ated surfaces suggest deposition from wet-based terrestrial glaciers. Black shales of the overlying Mackellar Formation are in sharp contact with diamictite and sandstone of the Pagoda Formation. Lonestones are extremely

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222Geology / Dufek Coast / Fremouw Formation / Paleozoology / Lystrosaurus / Dicynodon / Triassic / Lystrosauridae / Synapsid / Dicynodonts / Physical geography / Geologic formations

a vitric tuff (Barrett, 1969) and by tuffaceous claystone, which is common in the middle and upper , members of the formation. The composition of the Fremouw sandstone varies both vertically and laterally, reflecting cha

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223Glacier / Ice sheet / Antarctica / Pensacola Mountains / Dufek Massif / Transantarctic Mountains / Davis Valley / Glacial erratic / Ice shelf / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice age

types—slate, siltstone, sandstone, and dacite—but not on the coarse-grained intrusive rocks abundant in this area. These intrusive rocks appear to be so readily grussified that polish or striations, if originally pre

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224Stratigraphy / Beacon sandstone / Fremouw Formation / Triassic / Permian / Antarctica / Glossopteris / Geology / Physical geography / Geologic formations

Cooper, R. A., J . B. Jago, A. J . Rowell, and P. Braddock. In press. Age and correlation of the Cambrian—Ordovician Bowers Supergroup, northern Victoria Land. In R. L. Oliver, J. B. Jago, and P. R. James (Eds.), Antar

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225Sedimentary rocks / Clastic rock / Sedimentology / Sandstone / Granite / Volcanic rock / Petrology / Geology / Igneous petrology

have a cluster level of +0.91. The association of the minor elements scandium, vanadium, and cobalt with the major element iron in rock-forming minerals is well known. There were regular latitudinal differences in elemen

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226Geologic formations / Sedimentology / Clastic rock / Palynology / Antarctica / Transantarctic Mountains / Soil / Beacon sandstone / Geology / Physical geography / Paleontology

The wood impressions, the occurrence of fossilized logs up to 40 centimeters in diameter, and the presence of tree stumps caught up in the flows (Barrett, Elliot, and Lindsay 1986), all point to a climate suitable for th

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227Ross Dependency / Dufek Coast / Geologic formations / Fremouw Formation / Transantarctic Mountains / Beardmore Glacier / Mount Bowers / Antarctica / Wahl Glacier / Geography of Antarctica / Shackleton Coast / Physical geography

silts tone/mudstone and interbedded fine-grained sandstone. Internally, the coarser sandstone units consist of scour-bounded cosets of 0.2- to 0.5-meter thick trough cross-beds. In some cases, thin siltstone drapes have

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228Sedimentology / Sulfate minerals / Dufek Coast / Fremouw Formation / Gypsum / Dune / Sandstone / Sediment / Kennar Valley / Geology / Petrology / Sedimentary rocks

Orthoquartzite (Farnell, West Beacon, and Brawhm Sandstones), Arena Sandstone, Altar Mountain Formation (including Ashtray Sandstone Member), New Mountain Sandstone (Terra Cotta Siltstone and Windy Gully Sandstone member

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229Antarctica / Physical geography / Triassic / Jurassic

poorly sorted massive sandstones of unit 4 abruptly truncate unit 3. The coquinas consist of large disarticulated Pecten, Ostrea, broken echinoids, and whale bones. The fine-grained sandstone and mudstone of unit 5 entom

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230Geologic formations / Petrology / Sedimentary rock / Turbidite / Beardmore Glacier / Transantarctic Mountains / Beacon sandstone / Geology / Geography of Antarctica / Dufek Coast

canic detritus, derived from a caic-alkaline arc along the paleoPacific margin, became the principal component in sandstone. This change from cratonic to orogenic provenance was the result of a shift in the basin axis to

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