Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology of a Mid-Cretaceous, High-Latitude Floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Falcon-Lang, H. J., Cantrill, D. J., Nichols, C. J., Journal of the Geological Society
Abstract: The biodiversity and terrestrial ecology of the Late Albian Triton Point Formation (Fossil Bluff Group), Alexander Island, Antarctica is analysed to improve our understanding of polar biomes during the mid-Cretaceous thermal optimum. This formation was deposited on a high-latitude (75 deg S) floodplain and consists of two facies associations, a lower braided alluvial plain unit and an upper coastal meander-belt unit. Analysis of fossil plants in well exposed palaeosols reveals the existence of spatially complex plant communities. Braidplains supported patchy, low-density (91 trees/ha) stands of podocarp and taxodioid conifers on floodbasin substrates, and …
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Article title: Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology of a Mid-Cretaceous, High-Latitude Floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica.
Contributors: Falcon-Lang, H. J. - Author, Cantrill, D. J. - Author, Nichols, C. J. - Author.
Journal title: Journal of the Geological Society.
Volume: 158.
Publication date: July 2001.
Page number: 709+.
© Geological Society Publishing House Jan 2009.
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