Description
Permian - Triassic sandstone (feldspathic arenite and feldspathic wacke) with minor siltstone, mudstone and diamictite deposited as turbidity currents in submarine fans and widely exposed east of Coronation Island. Variably deformed and foliated, metamorphosed to between anchizone to upper greenschist-facies during the Late Triassic / early Jurassic.
Age
Permian - Triassic
Map Reference
Flowerdew, M. J. & Haselwimmer, C. E. Geological Map of the South Orkney Islands (1:150 000 scale). Sheet 2, (British Antarctic Survey, 2011). Available here.