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Sandstone from
Falkland Islands


Locality type:Overseas Territory
Classification
Type:Sandstone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sandstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Falkland Islands
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1237921
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1237921:3
GUID (UUID V4):e8c8c9d8-4f5d-4a5e-9c1e-928275235d9d
Localities for Sandstone in this Region
BeauchĂȘne Island, Falkland Islands
References
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Report (chapter)
deglaciation in southern Gondwana from the Falkland Islands KATE HORAN1,2*, PHILIP STONE3 & SIMON J. CROWHURST2...for the progression of deglaciation from the Falkland Islands microplate using a series of borehole core...meltwater pulses and turbidity currents. The Falkland Islands core data lend insight into the evolving Early...Australia) and the associated microplates. The Falkland Islands archipelago (alternatively known as Las Islas...sedimentary succession was deposited in the Falkland Islands that documented an almost complete account
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Falkland Islands in Gondwanaland 401 The Position of the Falkland Islands in a Reconstruction of...previous reconstructions of Gondwanaland the Falkland Islands have been placed in a position intermediate...that it would be preferable to position the Falkland Islands due east of the Eastern Province coast, thus...previous reconstructions of Gondwanaland the Falkland Islands have been either summarily dismissed as unimportant...completely. It has long been recognized that the Falkland Islands bear no stratigraphical or structural relation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paleogeography of Late Paleozoic Diamictite, Falkland Islands pebbly mudstone, graded graywacke, and shale...of disrupted and contorted slabs derived from sandstone of the western facies. Transport from west to...during Late Paleozoic time. Abstract: In the Falkland Islands, diamictite of Carboniferous to Early Permian...Permian age unconformably overlies Devonian sandstone and quartzite and extends gradationally upward into...channel-fillings and small fan-shaped bodies of well-sorted sandstone and minor conglomerate in the west to extensive
Report (chapter)
sedimentary fill in the Palaeozoic sequences of the Falkland Islands N E I L S. M E A D O W S Geochem Group Ltd...Abstract: The sedimentary sequences exposed on the Falkland Islands can be referred to two major episodes of...suggest the structural and tectonic history of the islands, and to erect a revised lithostratigraphy which...geology of the Falkland Islands which is currently taking place. The Falkland Islands have never been...to an understanding of the geology of the Falkland Islands was provided by the work of Halle (1912) who
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and inïŹ‚uence of fossil collections from the Falkland Islands: From Charles Darwin to continental drift...2011 Available online 1 February 2012 The Falkland Islands are typical of remote territories in that...during the ïŹrst ‘ofïŹcial’ geological survey of the islands in 1920– 1922. Meanwhile a large collection was...fragmentation of the Gondwana supercontinent. The Falkland Islands are now regarded as a rotated microplate created...Keywords: Falkland Islands Fossil collections Charles Darwin Continental drift The Falkland Islands lie in
Book
CARBONIFEROUS u 354 0 N 0 Ill :5 f West Falkland Group SILURIAN 417 443 ORDOVICIAN ? 495 CAMBRIAN...vested jointly in N ERC and the Falkland lslands Governmenr. Falkland Islands Government Department of Mineral...view of stone runs, Dcparrment of Agriculture, Falkland lsla.nds Government Figure 61 (left), Pony's Pass...Figure 74, gold particles courtesy of Derek Reeves, Falkland Minerals Limited. British Geological Survey NA... East Falkland STONEP, Al.DISSD T, and EDWARDS E J. Rocks and fossils of the Falkland Islands. British
Report (chapter)
events at near-polar palaeolatitudes in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic J. E. A. MARSHALL Ocean and...Devonian, the Falkland Islands were part of the high-latitude Cape Basin. West Falkland palynological...fragment of the Cape Fold Belt present in the Falkland Islands in southernmost South America. For, although...immediate Palaeozoic geological affinities of the Falkland Islands (Fig. 1) are with southern Africa and the...of West Gondwana (e.g. Marshall 1994). The Falkland Islands were one of a group of these microcontinents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to Permian strata in the southern Karoo and Falkland Islands suggests deposition in a separate and distinct...Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands off South America, highlight the complexity...Africa and Antarctica. The geology of the Falkland Islands was recognized by Halle (1912) as having similarities...(1952) who realized that the geology of the Falkland Islands ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses:...references therein). Although the position of the Falkland Islands is tightly located by stratigraphy and structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
109–124, 2018 Slow weathering of a sandstone-derived Podzol (Falkland Islands) resulting in high content of...Jubilee Villas, Ross Road, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands 4 Environmental Consultant, Cambridge, U.K...influence globally. An Umbric Podzol from the Falkland Islands was studied while investigating possible ways...mineralogy were compatible with derivation from sandstone rock. Clasts of heterogeneous mineral composition...such as the soil described here. Keywords: Falkland Islands, non-crystalline silicates, podzols, weathering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1846.] D A a W ] N ON T I l E F A L K L A N D ISLANDS, CRUSTACEA. 267 One or two species. .-~OLLUSCA...Geology of the FALKLAND ISLANDS. By C. DARWIN, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. THE Falkland Islands being a British...short account of the geological structure of these islands before the Society. They stretch from 51 ° to 52...layers of hard, yellowish, sometimes micaceous, sandstone: in the clay-slate organic remains are exceedingly...exceedingly rare, whilst in some of the layers of sandstone they are extremely numerous, the same species being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition at the Falkland Islands and in Tierra del Fuego Author(s): J. Gunnar...identified as the South Shetlands. A number of small islands were named after various victories of the Russians...north-eastward course was resumed, a few more small islands being sighted and named on the way; the 60th parallel...FAJ,KLAND ISLANDS AND IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO. By Dr. J. GUNNAR ANDERSSON. I. The Falkland Islands.-After...investiga- tions in different parts of the Falkland islands until September 11. The botanist made valuable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
390 Charles Davison — Stone-Rivers, Falkland Islands. lens; while the wider posterior flap shows the...—ON THE ORIGIN OP THE STONE-RIVERS OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. By CHARLES DAVISON, M.A., Mathematical Master...School, Birmingham. rjlHE stone-rivers of the Falkland Islands have been described by JL Mr. Darwin, Sir...245-249 ; and the Enc. Brit., ait. on the Falkland Islands ; Dr. R. W. Coppinger, Cruise of the 'Alert'...1017/S0016756800189253 Charles Davison—Stone-Rivers, Falkland Islands. 391 occupies the axis of the valley; and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
40 ° . A wide undulatory district of slate and sandstone extends southward of the main range; but on the...giving any further details on the geology of these islands ; nor would the tbregoing account have been worth...BrtacHmPODOUS SHELLS firm the PALtEOZOm ROCKS of the FALKLAND ISLANDS. By Joins MortHis, Esq., F.G.S., and DASIEL...(vol. i. p. 359), agrees with that of the Falkland Islands. The quartz of Anglesea is granulo-crystalline...less. 184~6.J . ~ o a a l s ASD SHARPE ON FALKLAND ISLANDS :FOSSILS, 2 7 5 crossed by a few concentric
Report (chapter)
Antarctic origin in Gondwanan tillite from the Falkland Islands p. S T O N E 1, 2 & M. R. A. T H O M S O N...o f Mineral Resources, Ross Road, Stanley, Falkland Islands' 3School o f Earth Sciences, University o...Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation of the Falkland Islands. Since neither Cambrian strata nor limestone...tillite clast assemblages between East and West Falkland suggest variable provenance within the regional...Carboniferous tillite at Port Purvis and Hill Cove, West Falkland (Fig. 1); fragmentary archaeocyaths also occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
effectivemanneralmost all over the area of the islands underconsideration. I have thought it possibly...terminal moraine" was represented by a zone of sandstone plates, pushed together so that they were all...barren also when compared with more northern Arctic islands, and its sterility is proved not only by the small...well as the fine mud. THE STONE-RIVERS OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS This island group, situated in 520 S. L....consists of two large and a great number of small islands. The East Falklands, and to some extent also the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Karoo (Dwyka Formation) basins and Falkland—Malvinas Islands (Lafonia Formation) during an initial...extension. The pre-breakup position of the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands on the easternmost part of the Karoo...Karoo basin and Port Sussex Formation in the Falkland Islands) capping glacial marine sediments. These early...and temporal distribution of paleocurrents and sandstone composition which document significant paleogeographic...Since voluminous information on paleocurrents and sandstone composition in these two basins has been profusely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/pgeola Geological exploration of South Atlantic islands and its contributions to the continental drift...The geological character of the South Atlantic islands was only slowly established during the ïŹrst half...continental drift but, as the continental nature of the islands became apparent, their ‘oceanic’ setting was utilised...debate to support their respective positions. So islands such as the Falklands archipelago and South Georgia...construct arising from lateral tectonics, and the Falkland Islands as representative of an itinerant continental
Book
Springer Earth System Sciences Kate Horan Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in the PermoCarboniferous...http://www.springer.com/series/10178 Kate Horan Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in the Permo-Carboniferous...Resources, Falkland Islands Government, and was responsible for recovering from the Falkland Islands the borehole...evidence from a Gondwana fragment that became the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) microplate following the...Kitchen Member of the Port Sussex Formation in East Falkland comprises deposits that document the switch from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2015 part 3] FOSSIL I'L.kNTS FI~OM TtIE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 313 13. On a COLI,EC'rlO~" of FOSSIL PL&~-TS...colleeLion of I'crmo-Carboniferous plants from the Falkland Islands which, with the consent of the Coloni'd Oltlee...East Falkland, also at North Arm, Bay of Harbours near the southern extremity of East Falkland; while...coast of Lafonia (the southern peninsula of East Falkland), and at Dos Lomas on the north-western coa.st...Subsequent to Ctiarles Darwin's visits to the Falkland Islands little attention was paid to their geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
showing the location of the Falkland Plateau Basin between the Falkland Plateau and the Maurice Ewing...Formation, based on the ratio between mudstone and sandstone, means that the sandstones and siltstones are... giving a possible bias to the proportion of sandstone in the succession. A subdivision into mudrocks...continental extension) origin. Seismic data from the Falkland Plateau Basin provide important information on...Western Geophysical. The Falkland Plateau Basin is situated between the Falkland Plateau in the west, a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fossils then recently brought back from the Falkland Islands by Charles Darwin. Recent work has proved...correctness of this view, and not only in the Falkland Islands, but the Lower Devonian fossils from the Argentine...Oriskany, the Gaspe sandstone of Eastern Quebec, and the Lower Devonian sandstone of Central and Southern...Southern Brazil and of the Falkland Islands. There are some variations in this species which might upon close...in the Falkland Islands from a " Continente meridional". The sediments in the Falkland Islands, however
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Pre-Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Atlantic Islands By RAOULC. MITCHELL-TttoM#., Mamer*) With 1 figure...Atlantic Islands are reported upon. Rocks older than the upper Triassic occur only on the Falkland and S...S. Georgia Islands. The Jurassic, as well as the Cretaceous are mainly concentrated on Cape Verde and...Cretacecous. Tertiary sediments occur on all Atlantic Islands. R6sum6 La lithologie, la puissance et la stratigraphie...Trias sup6rieur n'apparaissent que dans les iles Falkland et le de la G6orgie du Sud. Le Jurassique est
Report (chapter)
Whiteout Conglomerate, are 1 km of argillite and sandstone forming the Polarstar Formation. Collinson et...Ellworth Mountains; PM, Pensacola Mountains; FP, Falkland Plateau; EWM, combined Ellsworth Whitmore Mountains-Haag...continents based on Dalziel et al. (1994), and Falkland Plateau reconstruction of Marshall (1994). (Stump...sector of the TAM. Southern Africa and the Falkland Islands The Cape and Natal provinces in southern Africa...rocks of the Cape and Karoo supergroups. The Falkland Islands are included in this section as they most
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Together with similar detrital zircons in Triassic sandstone of SE Australia, these properties reflect those...Keywords: U–Pb ages; Hf-isotopes; Early Permian sandstone; Karoo Basin; Dronning Maud Land; Central Antarctic...In contrast, the Natal Belt, including the Falkland Islands, acted from 1.25 Ga to 1.0 Ga, with TDM 2...the Grunehogna Province, the ∌1.1 Ga Natal–Falkland Islands extend through the Maud Belt of DML through...the 0.52 Ga alkaline rocks at Cape Meredith, Falkland Islands, and by the 3.0 Ga intrusions of the Kaapvaal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upper Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands P. Stone, M. R. A. Thomson and A. W. A. Rushton...Upper Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions...Upper Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands P. Stone1, M. R. A. Thomson2 and A. W. A....Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation of the Falkland Islands contain a rich Cambrian fauna of archaeocyaths...ice-ïŹ‚ow directions in South Africa and the Falkland Islands. KEY WORDS: Antarctica, Dwyka Group, glaciation
 
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