Into the freezer: Cenozoic glaciation

Evidence of Neogene glaciation is preserved at the base and within the James Ross Island Volcanic Group in the Antarctic Peninsula region. This example of poorly sorted sediment (“diamictite”) at Pirrie Col on Vega Island contains a striated boulder that indicates subglacial deposition and transport from an expanded Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet to the west.

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