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Spores and pollen from glacial erratics in the Grove Mountains, east Antarctica

Aimin Fang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, Beijing, 100029, China, Xiaohan Liu, Deputy director, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, POBox 2871, Beijing, Beijing, 100085, China, Weimin Wang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing, China, and Jong Ik Lee, Korea Polar Research Institute, Songdo Techno Park 7-50, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 406-840, South Korea.

Glacial erratics containing sparse spores and pollen derived from a suite of glaciogene strata hidden beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet have been found in the Grove Mountains, east of the Lambert Glacier drainage system, Antarctica. The assemblage includes angiosperm and gymnosperm taxa of possible Neogene age with a minor recycled component. The miospores differ from those described from several other Cenozoic Antarctic localities, but include some similar taxa to the Pliocene Meyer Desert Formation.

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