| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | Sedimentology of the Permian Radok Conglomerate in the Beaver Lake area of MacRobertson Land, East Antarctica |
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| Journal | Geological Magazine |
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| Authors | Fielding, C. R. | Author |
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| Webb, J. A. | Author |
| Year | 1995 (January) | Volume | 132 |
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| Issue | 1 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| DOI | doi:10.1017/s0016756800011420Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 256449 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:256449:8 |
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| Full Reference | Fielding, C. R., Webb, J. A. (1995) Sedimentology of the Permian Radok Conglomerate in the Beaver Lake area of MacRobertson Land, East Antarctica. Geological Magazine, 132 (1) 51-63 doi:10.1017/s0016756800011420 |
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| Plain Text | Fielding, C. R., Webb, J. A. (1995) Sedimentology of the Permian Radok Conglomerate in the Beaver Lake area of MacRobertson Land, East Antarctica. Geological Magazine, 132 (1) 51-63 doi:10.1017/s0016756800011420 |
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| In | (1995, January) Geological Magazine Vol. 132 (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Abstract/Notes | AbstractThe mid- to Upper Permian Radok Conglomerate, the lowermost formation of the Permo-Triassic Amery Group, crops out in the Beaver Lake area of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Outcrop is confined to a north-south elongate, fault-bounded corridor interpretedas a remnant of a continental extensional basin formed during Late Palaeozoic times. This basinforms a small part of the much larger Lambert Graben, a major continental rift system. The RadokConglomerate consists of interbedded conglomerates, argillaceous sandstones, siltstones, and minor, thin carbonaceous siltstones and coals. Textural, petrographic, palaeocurrent and other data suggestlocal derivation from Precambrian massifs to the immediate west, during a period of fault activity.The unit is a minimum of 400 m thick, the base being unexposed, and grossly fines upward. It isabruptly overlain by quartzo-feldspathic sandstone-dominated rocks of the Upper Permian Bainmedart Coal Measures. Seven recurrent lithofacies have been recognized with the Radok Conglomerate, and are interpreted as the products of poorly-confined stream flow, sheet flow and sediment gravity flow processes, suspension fallout in shallow standing water, and organic sediment accumulation in peat-forming wetlands. The unit as a whole is interpreted as having accumulated as a coarse alluvial apron along the western margin of a ?graben extensional trough. Similar, though poorly exposed, facies are exposed on the eastern margin of the basin and may reflect similar depositional systems. Towards the top of the Radok Conglomerate, typical Radok lithologies are interbedded with quartzo-feldspathic sandstones derived from the south, precursors of the overlying Bainmedart Coal Measures. Interference between transverse (Radok) and axial (Bainmedart) drainage is possibly related to progressive infilling of extensional topography, thereby allowing axially flowing rivers to avulse increasingly into the Beaver Lake region from the main Lambert Graben. |
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