Cape Sobral [SEP] continent
Cape Sobral
Cape Sobral () is a high, mainly snow-covered elevation which surmounts the south end of Sobral Peninsula, and forming the east side of the entrance to Mundraga Bay on the east coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, who named it for Lieutenant Jose M. Sobral of the Argentine Navy, asst. physicist and meteorologist with the expedition.
Cretaceous to the Eocene. Successively younger rock formations found on the island are the López de Bertodano Formation (Cretaceous to early Paleocene) Sobral Formation and Cross Valley Formation (Paleocene) and La Meseta Formation (Eocene). Seymour Island has been referred to as the Rosetta Stone of Antarctic palaeontology, due to the unparalleled insight it provides into the geological and palaeontological history of the continent.
In December 1892 when Norwegian Captain, Carl Anton Larsen landed his ship, the "Jason", on Seymour Island, he returned with