Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica

About this book

In Antarctic history, the Eocene Epoch is rife with change, with climate conditions spanning 'Greenhouse' to 'Icehouse' conditions. In "Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica", readers will find the most recent record to date of the Eocene in East Antarctica. Combined with detailed study of the floral and faunal content of Eocene erratics, we can now envision as never before the conditions that prevailed in the high southern latitudes just prior to final separation of Antarctica from the Australian continent. Here then is the benchmark for current research and future discoveries for scientists, researchers and students of the region.

Contents

Preface

- The McMurdo Erratics: Introduction and Overview
- Glacial Geology and Origin of Fossiliferous-Erratic-Bearing Moraines, Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: An Alternative Ice Sheet Hypothesis
- Sedimentary Lithofacies of the McMurdo Sound Erratics
- Clay Mineral Composition of Glacial Erratics, McMurdo Sound
- Marine Diatom Assemblages from Eocene and Younger Erratics, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
- Ebridian and Silicoflagellate Biostratigraphy from Eocene McMurdo Erratics and the Southern Ocean
- Spores and Pollen from the McMurdo Sound Erratics, Antarctica
- Tertiary Marine Palynomorphs from the McMurdo Sound Erratics, Antarctica
- Eocene Plant Macrofossils from Erratics, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
- Fossil Wood from Eocene High Latitude Forests McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
- Eocene Mollusca (Bivalvia, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda) from McMurdo Sound: Systematics and Paleoecologic Significance
- Bryozoan Fragments from Eocene Glacial Erratics of McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica, Urszula Hara Rhynchonellide Brachiopods from Eocene to Earliest Oligocene Erratics in the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica - A New Species of Austrobalanus (Cirripedia, Thoracicia) from Eocene Erratics, Mount Discovery, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica
- Callichirus? symmetricus (Decapoda: Thalassinoidea) and Associated Burrows, Eocene, Antarctica
- Fish Remains from the Eocene of Mount Discovery, East Antarctica
- A Probable Piscivorous Crocodile from Eocene Deposits of McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica
- The First Record of a Fossil Bird from East Antarctica
- Paleobiogeographic Synthesis of the Eocene Macrofauna from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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