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Ostracoda from Vestfold Hill lake terraces, Antarctica

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Title Ostracoda from Vestfold Hill lake terraces, Antarctica
 
Creator Setty, M.G.A.P.
 
Subject Geology and Geophysics
 
Description Six species of ostracodes are recorded from two transects of terraces of Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. Two species (@iXesteleberis@@ sp. and @iBradleya dictyon@@) range from Cretaceous to Recent, @iPoseidonamicus aff. P. major@@ ranges from Oligocene to Recent, while @iKrithe tumida@@ ranges from Pliocene to Pleistocene to Recent. @iParadoxostoma antarcticuma@@ and @iLoxoreticulatum fallax@@ are reported from Antarctica and range from Pleistocene to Recent. @iBradleya@@ and @iKrithe@@ were typical deep water (psychrospheric) forms during Palaeocene to Oligocene as today but they were found in shallow (-45 to -37 m) depths here. Ostracodes are extremely rare as compared to the associated foraminiferal assemblage. Dissolution effect, loss of ornamentation, thinning and fragmentation of the fauna are considered to be mainly due to gradational external stress, and large scale physical environmental shifts such as high salinity, low temperature and high dissolved carbon dioxide content of the Deep Lake waters. Disparity in abundance is attributed to wind erosion, differential deposition after ablation of ice from ice sheets, physiographic variation of the region and high rate of dissolution of calcareous forms including foraminifera
 
Date 1995-05-16T10:01:02Z
2017-09-29T13:48:32Z
1995-05-16T10:01:02Z
2017-09-29T13:48:32Z
1984
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of the Geological Society of India, vol.25; 1984; 375-384
0016-7622
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/6451
 
Language en
 
Relation J Geol Soc India
SCI
 
Publisher Geological Society of India