Approximately 3,000 m of horizontally bedded sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Devonian( ?) to Jurassic are exposed in the central Transantarctic Mountains (Grindley, 1963; Barrett, 1969; Lindsay, 1969 (Table 1). The succession rests unconformably on an early Paleozoic and Precambrian basement complex. Locally, the lowermost formation of the Beacon sequence, the Alexandra Formation, is absent
... [Show full abstract] and the tillites of the Permian Pagoda Formation rest directly on the underlying basement complex. On the western flank of the Queen Elizabeth Range, beneath Mount Counts (Fig. 1), the Pagoda Formation rests on the Lower to Middle Cambrian Shackleton Limestone (Table 1). At this locality a debris-filled cave is exposed in cliffs of Shackleton Limestone.