Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T11:15:45.306Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from redeposited weathered clasts in the CIROS-1 drill core

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2004

Kevin Hall  and
Dieter Bühmann
Kevin Hall
Affiliation:
Geography Department, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3200, South Africa
Dieter Bühmann
Affiliation:
Geological Survey, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The occurrence and nature of weathered clasts in the CIROS-1 drill core from McMurdo Sound was recorded. These data showed both associations of weathered material with particular lithofacies and that certain lithologies were preferentially weathered. XRD analysis of weathering rinds from two lithostratigraphic core units suggest that such weathering data can provide evidence of terrestrial palaeoenvironmental conditions that may be otherwise unobtainable.

Keywords

AntarcticaMcMurdo Soundrock weathering
Type
Papers—Earth Sciences and Glaciology
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 235 - 238
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1989

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)