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Revised stratigraphical nomenclature for the Permo-Triassic Flagstone Bench Formation, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2004

J. A. Webb  and
C. R. Fielding
J. A. Webb
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
C. R. Fielding
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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Extract

The East Antarctic Craton contains only one substantial outcrop of Palaeozoic–Mesozoic strata between 0° and 150°E; this lies in Mac. Robertson Land, on the eastern margin of the northern Prince Charles Mountains. These rocks are known as the Amery Group (Mond 1972, McKelvey & Stephenson 1990) and comprise dominantly fluviatile sandstones, with subordinate shales, coals and conglomerates. The lower formations of the Amery Group, the Radok Conglomerate and Bainmedart Coal Measures, contain a diverse Stage 5 palynomorph assemblage indicating a Baigendzhinian–Tatarian age (late Early–Late Permian, hereafter abbreviated as mid–Late Permian; Dibner 1978).

Type
Stratigraphical Note
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 409 - 410
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1993

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