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Siltstone from
South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Island
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Type:Siltstone
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Siltstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1320277
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1320277:8
GUID (UUID V4):5a4babeb-2206-4d65-93aa-01b34dad3fd5
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hydrothermal veins and breccias on Hurd Peninsula, South Shetland Islands: a possible volcanic-related epithermal...deformed turbidites ROBERT C. R. W I L L A N British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,...hypabyssal rocks were probably coeval with the Antarctic Peninsula Volcanic Group dominating Livingston Island...volcanic and hypabyssal intrusive rocks. The Hurd Peninsula veins may, therefore, form part of a volcanic-epithermal...Sangster, 1992). On Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands (Fig. 1), a hydrothermal
Report (chapter)
signatures of metasedimentary rocks around the South Pacific margin and ~implications for their provenance...Australia (e-maik maasr@unimelb, edu. au) 4British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3...Australia, New Zealand, West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula to southern South America. Combining with...inputs. In southern South America, West Antarctica and the Antarctica Peninsula, similar accretionary...especially in the Palaeozoic (Western Province, New Zealand, interior West Antarctica and NW Argentina), and
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environment, Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica DEBBIE C. ARMSTRONG* British Antarctic Survey, High...Volcanic-hosted advanced argillie alteration on Barton Peninsula comprises an assemblage of chalcedonic silica...F)IsC1,are reported at this locality, and in Antarctica, for the first time. The WNWstriking, 1 km-long...alteration, acid sulphate-type epithermal system, Antarctica. Introduction VOLCANIC- and plutonic-related...protoPacific and Pacific oceanic lithosphere beneath the Antarctic plate for most of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic (Thomson
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OCEANOLOGY Bottom Plateau Basalt Magmatism in Western Antarctic Seas of the Southern Ocean Corresponding Member...investigation of regional geodynamics of the Western Antarctic. The obtained data on the geology, geochemistry...in the eastern continental slope of the Antarctic Peninsula, 110 and 102 in the middle part of the abyssal...north of the large continental block of the South Orkney Islands. A detailed geological survey revealed the...is 20–21 km [6, 10, 11]. Dredging on the steep western slope of the rise brought approximately 100 kg
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elsevier.com/locate/gr Age and composition of Antarctic sub-glacial bedrock reïŹ‚ected by detrital zircons...recycled microfossils in the Ellsworth Land–Antarctic Peninsula–Weddell Sea–Dronning Maud Land sector (240°E–0°–015°E)...Hf‐isotopes Erratics Recycled microfossils Ice-covered Antarctica a b s t r a c t The age and composition of the...zircons from Neogene turbidites as proxies of Antarctic bedrock, and review published proxies: detrital...the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is West Antarctica, and of detritus east of the AP East Antarctica. We conïŹrm
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https://archive.org/details/antarcticgeologyOOOOsymp ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS SCANDINAVIAN UNIVERSITY...- NUMBER I ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS Edited by RAYMOND J. ADIE British Antarctic Survey, Department...Birmingham, Birmingham 15, England Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics, Oslo, 6-15...1970, organized by the SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCH and sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL UNION...of Antarctica can best be judged from the fact that 7 years after the 1963 Symposium on Antarctic Geology
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Antarctic Paleobiology Thomas N. Taylor Edith L. Taylor Editors Antarctic Paleobiology Its Role in...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Antarctic paleobiology: its role in the reconstruction of...Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. Paleobotany-Antarctic regions-Congresses. 2. PalynologyAntarctic regions-Congresses...DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3238-4 Preface Today, Antarctica is a vast wilderness of nearly 14,000,000 square...the interior in 1983; temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula average about -lOoC. The occurrence of high
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conglomerates in the Trinity Peninsula Group at View Point, Antarctic Peninsula: sedimentology, geochronology...4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand ‡British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge...observations from the Trinity Peninsula Group at View Point on the Antarctic Peninsula indicate that thick, southward-younging...characteristics of some detrital zircons point to a lesser South Africa or Ellsworth Mountain-like contribution,...Palaeozoic to Mesozoic sediments in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia, including detrital zircon
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CIRCULAR 705 Mineral Resources of Antarctica Mineral Resources of Antarctica Compiled ancl eclitecl &y N...-----------------------Geologic provinces of Antarctica and presumed relationships to geologic provinces...occurrences of potentially valuable minerals 2 in Antarctica ----------------------------------------------Computer...plot of manganese nodule occurrences in the oceans south of lat 60° S. ____________________________ :.. __________________...----------------------------------5. Expected mineral deposits, Antarctica --------------------------- 20 26 4. TABLES
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CIRCULAR 909 Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Antarctica Work done in cooperation with the National Science...Foundation Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Antarctica By John C. Behrendt, Editor GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Branch of Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS...resources in Antarctica?, by John C. Behrendt . . . . . . Mineral occurrences of Antarctica, by Peter D...· · · · · · · · · · · The Dufek Intrusion of Antarctica and a survey of its minor metals and possible
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glacial sequences on James Ross and Vega islands, Antarctic Peninsula MICHAEL J. H A M B R E Y 1 & J O H...SY23 3DB, UK (e-mail: m]h@aber.ac,uk) 2British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,...stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Neogene Period. The northern Antarctic Peninsula is in a critical...glacial deposits that occur on James Ross and Vega islands. They occur between a thick volcanic sequence,...west. Provenance studies indicate that the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet expanded sufficiently to deposit
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AGREEMENT BEDROCK GEOLOGY JU ANTARCTICA Alfred R. Taylor U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer June 1960 ... Coy mental tec? > ‘A ik fi UNITED STATES ANTARCTIC PROJECTS 718 Jackson Place, N.W. 25, Washington...Washington BEDROCK GEOLOGY OFFICER D.C. OF ANTARCTICA by Alfred R, Taylor LTJG, USNR June 1960 Introduction...Island Arc and Palmer Peninsula Marie Byrd Land and "Ellsworth Land" Volcanic Islands on West Side of the...the Ross Sea The Shield Area The Trans-antarctic Mountain Belt Wilkes Land-Enderby Land Queen Maud Land-Coats
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Resources Potential of Antarctica SHL WITHDRAWN Physical Sciences ANTARCTIC OCEANOLOGY Joseph L. Reid...Reid, Editor ANTARCTIC OCEANOLOGY II: THE AUSTRALIAN- NEW ZEALAND SECTOR Dennis E. Hayes, Editor...Editor ANTARCTIC SNOW AND lcE STUDIES Malcolm Mellor, Editor ANTARCTIC SNOW AND lcE STUDIES II A. P. Crary...SoIL FORMING PROCESSES J. C. F. Tedrow, Editor ANTARCTIC DRY VALLEY DRILLING PROJECT L. D. McGinnis...PALEONTOLOGY OF THE Jarvis B. Hadley, Editor VICTORIA ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL 'fRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS
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evolution of the Antarctic biota: an introduction J. A . C R A M E British Antarctic Survey, Natural...increase in our knowledge of the fossil record of Antarctica. Improved access to the remotest parts of the...beginning of the Cambrian period. No longer can Antarctica be dismissed from our view of the history of...palaeontological syntheses. If, today we have an image of Antarctica as a remote, inhospitable continent that supports...meeting on the 'Origins and evolution of the Antarctic biota' at the Geological Society, London on 24
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The Tenth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES X) University of California, Santa...(listed alphabetically) Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Stanford University The National...10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World convened...International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) is the major international Antarctic geoscience meeting...2007 is sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, the U.S. National Science Foundation
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shallowmarine strata in the southern Larsen Basin, Antarctic Peninsula B. HATHWAY*$., D. I. M. MACDONALD*§, J. B...I N G ? & D. J. C A N T R I L L * * British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,... on the eastern, back-arc margin of the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc, includes one of the thickest...1-km-long, 400-m-wide outcrop at the tip of Kenyon Peninsula, is the only known exposure of Upper Cretaceous...500-600 km along the Weddell Sea margin of the Antarctic Peninsula in Santonian times. 1. Introduction The
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investigations from the Antarctic Peninsula TEAL R. RILEY* & PHILIP T. LEAT British Antarctic Survey, Natural...November 1998) Abstract – Jurassic magmatism in western Gondwana produced the most voluminous episode of...Gondwana magmatic province is exposed in Patagonian South America. The volcanic rocks of Patagonia have been...sporadically across much of the once contiguous Antarctic Peninsula, and are considered to form an extension...continuation of the province to include the Antarctic Peninsula would extend its strike length along the
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ANTARCTIC OFFSHORE ACOUSTIC STRATIGRAPHY (ANTOSTRAT) OVERVIEW...offshore Antarctica: IN Cooper, A.K. and Webb, P.N., conveners, International Workshop on Antarctic Offshore...Blankenship & S.T. Rooney 13 SEAFLOOR SAMPLING ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN J.B. Andersor> 24 INTERPRETATION...OF THE NORTHERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA REGION J.B. Anderson & J.D. Jeffers 31 ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN:...MARGIN: BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY DATA P.P. Barker,. R.D. Larter & C.J. Pudsey 37 MORPHOLOGIC, STRATIGRAPHIC
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Geology and Paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula View of Seymour Island looking northeastward...Geology and Paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula Edited by Rodney M. Feldmann Department...Geology and paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic peninsula. (Memoir / Geological Society of America...and index. 1. Geology—Antarctic regions—Seymour Island. 2. Paleontology—Antarctic regions—Seymour Island...Early geological exploration of Seymour Island, Antarctica 4 ..... William J. Zinsmeister Topographic
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polar environment: James Ross Island, NE Antarctic Peninsula BETHAN J. DAVIES1*, NEIL F. GLASSER1, JONATHAN...data, and analyses the behaviour of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet through the Last Glacial Maximum...and interpreted for Ulu Peninsula, James Ross Island, NE Antarctic Peninsula: (1) the Glacier Ice and...(e.g. Svalbard, Canadian High Arctic) and the Antarctic (e.g. Vestfold Hills, Dry Valleys; Alexander Island)...among others, for cold-based glaciers in East Antarctica (French & Guglielmin 1999; Fitzsimons 2003; Hall
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Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia. Copyright...Canberra in tors, eastern Australia, Antarctica, southern Africa, and south- August 1986. At that meeting...cussing the tectonic framework for the Gondwana Antarctica, when Powell remarked that the Series in...eastern Australia, appeared to extend through Antarctica to Argentina. Powell had, in 1985, spent two...sectors of its reconstructed 10,000 km extent from western Argentina to northern Queensland. Each sector was
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129 Argentina and Chile 131 Paleogeography 147 Antarctica 151 x 1 7 G. E. G. WESTERMANN Part I: Time...Thailand and Malay Peninsula Indochina 210 Part III: Regional geology and stratigraphy Western Canada and United...Northwestern Canada and northern Alaska 30 Western Interior Canada 38 Western Interior United States 44 Southern...R I Z , M. B. GORDON, a n d H . - J . GURSKY Western Mexico 93 North-central and eastern Mexico 100...block Southern Central America 113 Western South America and Antarctica 12 Regional setting Venezuela
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Lake Formation (Coniacian) of James Ross Island, Antarctica: an enigmatic element in the history of a back-arc...1,3 & D U N C A N P I R R I E 1,4 aBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge...Coniacian Hidden Lake Formation of James Ross Island, Antarctica is a 300-400m-thick succession of marine volcaniclastic...of the Hidden Lake Formation of western James Ross Island, Antarctica (Fig. 1) represent a period of transition...h-Latitude Palaeoenvironments,JamesRossBasin,Antarctica. Geological Society, London, Special Publications
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backarc magmatism in the Silurian Tumut Trough, New South Wales: An ancient analogue of the early Lau Basin...backarc magmatism in the Silurian Tumut Trough, New South Wales: An ancient analogue of the early Lau Basin...backarc magmatism in the Silurian Tumut Trough, New South Wales: an ancient analogue of the early Lau Basin...Honeysuckle beds of the 'Tumut Trough', southeastern New South Wales comprise a sequence of pillow and massive...crust. The most appropriate modern analogue is the western Lau Basin in which basalt and andesite, intermediate
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Geological Survey The Undiscovered Oil and Gas of Antarctica by John Kingston^ OPEN-FILE REPORT 91-597 This............. General; the south Australia rifted margin analog .... Antarctica-Australia rift province................... Antarctica-India rift province ....................... Antarctica-Africa rift province...province ...................... Antarctica-Falkland rift province .................... Interior rift provinces................. Antarctica-Australia marginal rift ........................ Antarctica-India marginal
 
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