@ARTICLE{Birkenmajer_Krzysztof_Polish_1996,
 author={Birkenmajer, Krzysztof},
 volume={vol. 17},
 number={No 3-4},
 journal={Polish Polar Research},
 pages={125-141},
 howpublished={online},
 year={1996},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences},
 publisher={Committee on Polar Research},
 abstract={The Polish geological research on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (West Antarctica), during the two past decades (1977-1996) included: stratigraphy, radiometric dating, petrology and geochemistry, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental studies, volcanology, tectonics, structural geology, Quaternary geology, paleobotany and palaeozoology. The major scientific achievements were: (1) the establishment of formal lithostratigraphic standards for radiometrically-dated Upper Cretaceous through Tertiary magmatic rock sequences and intercalated sediments; (2) the discovery of four Tertiary glaciations and three interglacials, spanning some 30 Ma from Early/Middle Eocene through Early Miocene; (3) the discovery and systematic elaboration of rich terrestrial and marine biota of Late Cretaceous through Early Miocene ages; (4) the reconstruction of changing Late Cretaceous and Tertiary terrestrial and marine palaeoenvironments in a mobile volcanic-arc setting; (5) the determination of age and structural evolution of the island's two Quaternary volcanoes; (6) the reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous through Recent evolution stages of the South Shetland magmatic arc and its backarc Bransfield Basin and Rift, based on tectonic and structural studies.},
 type={Article},
 title={Polish geological researchon King George Island, West Antarctica (1977-1996)},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/110960/PDF-MASTER/1996-3-4_125-141.pdf},
 keywords={Antarctica, King George Island, magmatic arcs, Cretaceous-Tertiary},
}