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Antarctic glaciation and early Tertiary vegetation

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PALYNOLOGICAL evidence obtained from drilling in the Ross Sea by the Glomar Challenger suggests that vegetation persisted in the area until the late Oligocene and results from the same drilling programme also suggest that ice-rafting of clastic debris commenced in the late Oligocene1. The vegetation reflected in the pollen spectrum therefore seems to have been contemporaneous with early phases of glaciation.

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  1. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

    ELIZABETH M. KEMP

  2. Geology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand

    PETER J. BARRETT

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KEMP, E., BARRETT, P. Antarctic glaciation and early Tertiary vegetation. Nature 258, 507–508 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258507a0

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