First discovery of Antarctic amber [Short note]

Klages, Johann P.; Gerschel, Henny; Salzmann, Ulrich; Nehrke, Gernot; Müller, Juliane; Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0240-7317; Bohaty, Steven M.; Bickert, Torsten. 2024 First discovery of Antarctic amber [Short note]. Antarctic Science, 36 (5). 439 -440. 10.1017/S0954102024000208

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Abstract/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).

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1017/S0954102024000208
ISSN:	0954-1020
Additional Keywords:	Antarctic amber, Late Cretaceous, Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica
Date made live:	15 Nov 2024 14:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536496

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