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The Polarisbreen Series and other evidences of late Pre-Cambrian Ice Ages in Spitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. B. Wilson  and
W. B. Harland
C. B. Wilson
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
W. B. Harland
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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Abstract

Details of the Infra-Cambrian Polarisbreen Series are given, arising partly out of observations made since they were defined in outline by the authors in 1956. The Polarisbreen Series includes the distinctive Polarisbreen Tillite Formation, which correlated with the neighbouring Sveanor Formation of Nordaustlandet and with other tillites in Vestspitsbergen. They are regarded as a product of the great infra-Cambrian ice age and are correlated with world-wide tillite horizons of this age.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 101 , Issue 3 , 22 June 1964 , pp. 198 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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