Abstract
Glacio-marine sediments of the Cape Melville Formation (King George Island, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica) contain a rich and predominantly invertebrate fauna. The occurrence of nannoplankton and belemnites might be used as evidence for dating the glacio-marine Cape Melville Formation as Cretaceous. However, the co-occurrence of the coral genus Flabellum (Eocene–Recent) and the foraminiferal genus Uvigerina (Eocene–Recent) indicate that recycling of the nannoplankton and belemnites has occurred. The sediments of the Cape Melville Formation contain a variety of glacially striated ice-rafted dropstones (up to 2 m) of Antarctic continent provenance. These sediments lie between lavas of the Sherratt Bay Formation and Pliocene Polonez Cove Formation, and may correlate with a late Miocene glaciation of Antarctica.
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