Kerguelen Islands

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Tristan Jones - 09 Mar 2005 10:25 GMT

Kerguelen Island in the Southern Indian was most likely once an ancient
micro-continent with a possible to Antarctica. What has the sort of
flora and fauna fossils that been found there?

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Gautam Majumdar - 09 Mar 2005 18:12 GMT

> Kerguelen Island in the Southern Indian was most likely once an ancient
> micro-continent with a possible to Antarctica. What has the sort of
> flora and fauna fossils that been found there?

Kerguelen island and plateau which underlies the island formed due to
flood basalt eruption. See

http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~dweis/research/KergArch.html
http://www.wndrland.demon.co.uk/kerguelen/kerguelen_islands.html
http://www.crozet.demon.co.uk/kerg.htm

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Kerguelen Islands