Carapace Nunatak is one of the furthest localities from the coast, and often has extremely bad weather. This year we have collected here once, so far. Plant fossils are Jurassic in age, and are anatomically preserved. This is one of only a tiny number of Jurassic localities that yields fossil plants with preserved internal anatomy.

Site #1 on the Collecting Localities Page is a vertical exposure about 150 m long that occurs at the contact between a basalt flow and the underlying sandstone. We landed on an ice ridge adjacent to the exposure, and "hiked" to the exposure on January 6, 1998.

We then moved around the Nunatak to Site #2 on the Collecting Localities Page, and collected in the chert lens that is exposed directly below the pillow basalt.

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