First discovery of Antarctic amber
Here, we report the first discovery of Antarctic fossil resin (commonly referred to as amber) within a ~5 cm-thick lignite layer, which constitutes the top part of a ~3 m-long palynomorph-rich and root-bearing carbonaceous mudstone of mid-Cretaceous age (Klages et al. 2020). The sedimentary sequence...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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October 2024
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Antarctic science
Year: 2024, Volume: 36, Issue: 5, Pages: 439-440 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2079 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0954102024000208 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102024000208 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/first-discovery-of-antarctic-amber/700244C13B3972F0048EAC029E34263E 
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| Author Notes: | Johann P. Klages, Henny Gerschel, Ulrich Salzmann, Gernot Nehrke, Juliane Müller, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Steven M. Bohaty and Torsten Bickert |
| Summary: | Here, we report the first discovery of Antarctic fossil resin (commonly referred to as amber) within a ~5 cm-thick lignite layer, which constitutes the top part of a ~3 m-long palynomorph-rich and root-bearing carbonaceous mudstone of mid-Cretaceous age (Klages et al. 2020). The sedimentary sequence (Fig. 1) was recovered by the MARUM-MeBo70 seafloor drill rig at Site PS104_20 (73.57° S, 107.09° W; 946 m water depth) from the mid-shelf section of Pine Island trough in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, during RV Polarstern Expedition PS104 in early 2017 (Gohl 2017; Fig. 1a). So far, amber deposits have been described from every continent except Antarctica (Langenheim 2003, Quinney et al. 2015; Fig. 1a). |
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| Item Description: | Online veröffentlicht: 12. November 2024 Gesehen am 13.08.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1365-2079 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0954102024000208 |