The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water - Couverture souple

Faure, Gunter; Mensing, Teresa M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9048119871 ISBN 13 : 9789048119875

Editeur : Springer, 2011

Synopsis

Prolog

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: EXPLORATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
1. The Exploration of Antarctica
2. Antarctica: The Continent

Part II: THE BASEMENT ROCKS
3. Southern Victoria Land; Basement Rocks
4. Northern Victoria Land
5. Central Transantarctic Mountains
6. The Queen Maud Mountains
7. Horlick Mountains
8. The Far-Eastern Mountains
9. From Rodinia to Gondwana

Part III: GONDWANA: GROWTH AND DISINTEGRATION
10. The Beacon Supergroup
11. Beacon Supergroup: Special topics
12. The Ferrar Group: Kirkpatrick Basalt
13. Ferrar Group: Dolerite sills and the Dufek intrusion
14. Kirwan Volcanics, Queen Maud Land
15. Break-up of Gondwana and Assembly of Antarctica

Part IV: FIRE AND ICE
16. Cenozoic Volcanoes
17. The East Antarctic Ece Sheet
18. Meteorites on Ice
19. Glaciation of Southern Victoria Land
20. Antarctica in Retrospect

Author Index

Subject Index

Geologic Time Scale

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9048119871
• ISBN 13: 9789048119875
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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