From greenhouse to icehouse–the Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica

JE Francis, S Marenssi, R Levy, M Hambrey… - Developments in earth …, 2008 - Elsevier
The change from a warm, ice-free greenhouse world to the glacial Antarctic icehouse
occurred during the latest Eocene–earliest Oligocene. Prior to this, during the Early–Middle …

Cainozoic ferns and their distribution

ME Collinson - Brittonia, 2001 - Springer
The phytogeographic distribution of Cainozoic ferns is reported based upon a critical re-
appraisal of the macrofossil and mesofossil record also taking account of evidence from a …

Cretaceous and early Tertiary climates of Antarctica: evidence from fossil wood

JE Francis, I Poole - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2002 - Elsevier
Fossil wood is abundant in Cretaceous and early Tertiary sediments of the northern Antarctic
Peninsula region. The wood represents the remains of vegetation that once grew in high …

Eocene climate record of a high southern latitude continental shelf: Seymour Island, Antarctica

LC Ivany, KC Lohmann, F Hasiuk… - Geological …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A high-resolution record of Eocene paleo-temperature variation is preserved within the high
southern latitude, marine shelf succession of the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island …

Late Cretaceous–Cenozoic climatic variations of the northern Antarctic Peninsula: new geochemical evidence and review

RV Dingle, M Lavelle - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 1998 - Elsevier
Aptian to Pliocene time-series of X-ray fluorescence data from the Antarctic Peninsula are
used to assess the degree of chemical weathering and maturity of sediments deposited …

Antarctic Peninsula and South America (Patagonia) Paleogene terrestrial faunas and environments: biogeographic relationships

MA Reguero, SA Marenssi, SN Santillana - Palaeogeography …, 2002 - Elsevier
The Eocene of Seymour Island contains the only association of Cenozoic plants and land
vertebrates known from anywhere in Antarctica and lies at about latitude 63° south. The late …

Rainforest conifers of Eocene Patagonia: Attached cones and foliage of the extant Southeast Asian and Australasian genus Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae)

P Wilf - American Journal of Botany, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Eocene caldera‐lake beds at Laguna del Hunco (LH, ca. 52.2 Ma)
and Río Pichileufú (RP, ca. 47.7 Ma) in Argentine Patagonia provide copious information …

Stable isotope and minor element proxies for Eocene climate of Seymour Island, Antarctica

AL Dutton, KC Lohmann, WJ Zinsmeister - Paleoceanography, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Abundant and well‐preserved marine macrofossils on Seymour Island, Antarctica, provide a
valuable resource to establish paleoenvironmental conditions at high southern latitudes …

The origin of platyrrhines: an evaluation of the Antarctic scenario and the floating island model

A Houle - American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This paper evaluates whether 1) protoplatyrrhines could have migrated to South America via
Antarctica, and 2) the floating island model is a plausible transoceanic mode of dispersal for …

A multi-proxy approach to determine Antarctic terrestrial palaeoclimate during the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary

I Poole, D Cantrill, T Utescher - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2005 - Elsevier
Fossil wood is abundant throughout the Cretaceous and Tertiary sequences of the northern
Antarctic Peninsula region. The fossil wood represents the remains of the vegetation that …