The South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: Lithostratigraphy and geological map

J Bastías, D Chew, C Villanueva, T Riley… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Over the last few decades, numerous geological studies have been carried out in the South
Shetland Islands, which have greatly contributed to a better understanding of its geological …

Mapping scientific fieldwork data: a potential tool for improving and strengthening Antarctic Specially Protected Areas as an effective measure for protecting Antarctic …

CX Salinas, CA Cárdenas… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Environmental conservation requires identification of biological and ecological values,
application of protection measures and, thereafter, regular and periodic sampling. The …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of an antarctic penguin colony ecosystem using high-resolution UAV hyperspectral imagery

A Román, A Tovar-Sánchez, B Fernández-Marín… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Penguin colonies significantly influence the distribution and diversity of vegetation
communities in Maritime Antarctica, as they serve as vital sources of nutrients for both …

ShetlandsUAVmetry: unmanned aerial vehicle-based photogrammetric dataset for Antarctic environmental research

A Román, G Navarro, A Tovar-Sánchez, P Zarandona… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
The study of the functioning and responses of Antarctica to the current climate change
scenario is a priority and a challenge for the scientific community aiming to predict and …

The Byers Basin: Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonic and depositional evolution of the forearc deposits of the South Shetland Islands and its implications for the northern …

J Bastias, M Calderón, L Israel, F Hervé… - International Geology …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the Jurassic–Cretaceous stratigraphic evolution of fore-arc deposits
exposed along the west coast of the northern Antarctic Peninsula. In the South Shetland …

[PDF][PDF] Evolution of the Austral-Antarctic flora during the Cretaceous: New insights from a paleobiogeographic perspective

M Leppe, M Mihoc, N Varela, W Stinnesbeck… - Revista Chilena de …, 2012 - redalyc.org
Fores t environments have continuously existed in Antarctica since the late Paleozoic and
only disappeared from this continent since the Neogene. Nevertheless, the structure of these …

A mid-Cretaceous tree fern of Thyrsopteridaceae (Cyatheales) preserved in Myanmar amber

C Li, RC Moran, J Ma, B Wang, J Hao, Q Yang - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
An unusual tree fern trapped in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber is described as
Thyrsopteris cretacea sp. nov.(Thyrsopteridaceae). The fossil most resembles T. elegans, a …

Remnants of Antarctic vegetation on King George Island during the early Miocene Melville glaciation

S Warny, CM Kymes, RA Askin, KP Krajewski, PJ Bart - Palynology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Palynological analyses of 12 samples from the Cape Melville Formation, which crops out on
easternmost King George Island, Antarctica, provide new information on the type of …

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) macroflora from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand: Bryophytes, lycophytes and pteridophytes

C Mays, AMP Tosolini, DJ Cantrill, JD Stilwell - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Late Cretaceous fossils from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, represent an important
high palaeolatitude (~ 70–80° S) flora. Located between eastern and western Gondwana …

Coniopteris antarctica sp. nov.(Pteridophyta) and associated plant assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous of Rip Point, Nelson Island, Antarctica

C Trevisan, T Dutra, R Ianuzzi, A Sander… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fossil plants are reported from beds exposed on northern Nelson Island, South Shetland
Islands. The fossiliferous beds are exposed near sea level and constitute the basal intervals …