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Calcite from
King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1320304
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1320304:1
GUID (UUID V4):de1ab835-f4f4-4861-9570-ae473b95a423
Localities for Calcite in this Region
Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
Barton Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
Fildes peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
References
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glaciomarine sedimentation in the northern Antarctic Peninsula region: the stratigraphy and sedimentology...sedimentology of the Hobbs Glacier Formation, James Ross Island D. PIRRIE*, J. A. CRAME†, J. B. RIDING‡, A. R. BUTCHER*...Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3SE, UK † British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge...the Antarctic Peninsula region is limited to a number of isolated localities on Alexander Island, the...the South Shetland Islands and in the James Ross Island area. In the James Ross Island area, Late Cretaceous
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Publications Cretaceous and Cenozoic vegetation of Antarctica integrating the fossil wood record Imogen Poole... 2013 Cretaceous and Cenozoic vegetation of Antarctica integrating the fossil wood record IMOGEN P...Cretaceous and Cenozoic Antarctic fossil wood floras, predominantly from the James Ross Island Basin, provides...recognized in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of the Antarctic Peninsula based on the distribution and taxonomic composition... but evolving palaeoenvironments in the Antarctic Peninsula region were probably of equal, if not greater
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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,...few metres thick. Hydrothermal quartz, chlorite, calcite and chalcedony predominate, with variable amounts...probably coeval with the Antarctic Peninsula Volcanic Group dominating Livingston Island, dated between 130...volcanic and hypabyssal intrusive rocks. The Hurd Peninsula veins may, therefore, form part of a volcanic-epithermal
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MINER.4LIZ.4TION ALONG THE L.4SSITER OF THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA Introduction CO.4ST chemicalanalyses,and...and climatic problemsof large-scalemining in Antarctica are enormousto- data). day, the discoveryof copperand...AntarcticPeninsulaare fides at many placeson the Antarctic Peninsula stocksand batholithsof the Cretaceousand...Las•iter Coastregion Peninsula Series (Carboniferous?to lower Mesoof the peninsula. One depositthereappearspromis-...Scattered Peninsulais geologically a continuationof the South patchesof gently folded to horizontalUpper CreAmericanAndes
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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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prep.), but The "quartz-pyrite"rocks of the South Shetland their broad distributionis shownin Figure 1...most of the pyrite-bearing rocks of the South Shetland Islands are not of this type. Rather than veins...the quartz-pyrite rocks on George Island. Inset shows the positionof the South ShetlandIslands. Km • ...alteration on the western depositspartially resorbedamphiboleoccurs(Table Keller Peninsula(area approx.20...alteration, calcite,with calciteand illite-muscoviteforming most northern Barton Peninsula. of the groundmass
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Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands D.C. Armstrong, R.C.R. WUlan British Antarctic Survey, Natural...deposit in an Eocene pluton within the South Shetland Island magmatic arc has been re-interpreted as...faulting. Livingston Island is the second largest island in the South Shetland Island group, a 550 km long...long archipelago, 125 km north of the Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1), composed of accretionary complex...of Cretaceous-Cenozoic age. Southeast Livingston Island is dominantly composed of plutonic rocks, forming
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δ 15 N in the ornithogenic sediments from the Antarctic maritime as palaeoecological proxies during the...2006 Available online 21 February 2006 Editor: S. King Abstract In this paper, we have examined carbon...sediment profiles from the Ardley Island and Barton Peninsula of Antarctica for palaeoecological changes during...comes from terrestrial and aquatic plants in Antarctic such as mosses, lichens, and algae in lakes. As...and nitrogen isotope; palaeoecology; penguin; Antarctica 1. Introduction Nitrogen and carbon isotopes
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Cretaceous angiosperm leaf floras, James Ross Island, Antarctica P E T A A. H A Y E S 1, J A N E E. F R A...Box 50007, Stockholm S-104 05, Sweden 4British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,...(Marambio Group) in the James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula region. The leaves represent the remains...emergent volcanic arc, now represented by the Antarctic Peninsula, and were subsequently transported and buried...for growth. This period of Cretaceous warmth in Antarctica corresponds with the Cretaceous thermal maximum
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Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands P. Stone, M. R. A. Thomson and A. W. A. Rushton...Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of...Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands P. Stone1, M. R. A. Thomson2 and A. W. A. Rushton3...Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation of the Falkland Islands contain a rich Cambrian fauna of archaeocyaths...Chondrinouyina. The archaeocyath fauna has an Australo–Antarctic character and the Transantarctic Mountains seem
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marginal basin at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Across the Drake Passage from the Bransfield...concentrations and ratios of diagnostic trace elements show island arc affinities. Geochemical discrimination diagrams...chemical characteristics similar to those generated at island arcs (e.g. Miyashiro 1973; Harper 1984; Leitch...Bransfield Strait (Deception, Bridgeman, and Penguin Islands; Fig. 2) pointed out significant similarities (Tarney...Bransfield Strait ~ Drake Plate ..~0~ J ~-~~~:'~\ Shetland Microplate The Bransfield Strait (Fig. 1) is
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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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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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Article Recent Ostracod Fauna of the Western Ross Sea (Antarctica): A Poorly Known Ingredient of Polar...Taviani, M. Recent Ostracod Fauna of the Western Ross Sea (Antarctica): A Poorly Known Ingredient of Polar...Trieste, Italy; fernetti@units.it Italian National Antarctic Museum Section of Trieste, University of Trieste...controlling factors in Antarctic waters. The ostracod fauna from the Western Ross Sea Shelf appears dominated...fallax, Cativella bensoni, Austrotrachyleberis antarctica and Patagonacythere longiducta, colonizing a
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tectonics and glaciation in Antarctica by D. J. DREWRY 43 Volcanic record of Antarctic glacial history: implications...Evidence from the South Shetland Islands towards a glacial history of West Antarctica by B. s. JOHN 75...weathering and climate in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica by E. DERBYSHIRE 93 Valley asymmetry and slope...geometrical form on High Arctic debris slopes, south-west Devon Island, Canada by P . J. HOWARTH and J. G. BONES...ice-foot on the beaches of Radstock Bay, south-west Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada bys. B. MCCANN and R. J
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ikaite record of late Holocene climate at the Antarctic Peninsula Zunli Lu a,⁎, Rosalind E.M. Rickaby b, Hilary...Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK School of Ocean...hydration water stable isotope Holocene Antarctic Peninsula a b s t r a c t Calcium carbonate can crystallize...hydration waters and crystals collected from the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), a region sensitive to climate fluctuations...Period and Little Ice Age extended to the Antarctic Peninsula. Published by Elsevier B.V. 1. Introduction
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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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geosciences Review Antarctic Sea Ice Proxies from Marine and Ice Core Archives Suitable for Reconstructing...Claire S. Allen 1 , Johan Etourneau 2,3 , Amy C. F. King 1 , Mirko Severi 4 , V. Holly L. Winton 1 , Juliane...and Victoria L. Peck 1 1 2 3 4 5 * British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK; csall@bas.ac.uk...current Antarctic trends. Paleoclimate archives, from marine sedimentary records and coastal Antarctic ice...In this study, we collate published records of Antarctic sea ice over the past 2000 years (2 ka). We evaluate
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Mineralogical analyses of surface sediments in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: coordinated analyses of Raman spectra...Mineralogical analyses of surface sediments in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: coordinated analyses of Raman spectra...biogeochemistry, astrobiology, solar system Keywords: Antarctic Dry Valleys, sediments, Raman spectra, reflectance...Mineralogical analyses of surface sediments in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: coordinated analyses of Raman spectra...at Lakes Fryxell, Vanda and Brownworth in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (ADV) were investigated as analogues
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ROCKS FROM ANTARCTICA: THE DISCOVERY COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) D. R. C. KEMPE...MINERALOGY Vol. 2 No. 7 LONDON: 1973 ROCKS FROM ANTARCTICA: THE DISCOVERY COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM...Issued 5 September, 1973 Price £2.45 ROCKS FROM ANTARCTICA: THE DISCOVERY COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM...I. II. Introduction Australian Antarctic Territory Bertha Island, Sheehan Nunatak i Scullin Monolith...Clarence Island South Orkney Islands Inaccessible Islands (a) Coronation Island (b) Signy Island (c) Powell
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II.—Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917: Geological Observations in the Weddell Sea Area. By J...CONTENTS. PAGE 1. GOATS LAND 2. SOUTH GEORGIA 3. ELEPHANT ISLAND, SOUTH SHETLANDS (a) Physiography and...Land, and next in importance to crossing the Antarctic continent was the projected geological sledging...the relationship of Graham Land to the rest of Antarctica. The besetment and destruction of the Endurance...farther south ; his ship, however, was never very near the coast except in the extreme south. Nunataks
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Snapshot of cooling and drying before onset of Antarctic Glaciation Sarah J. Feakins a,∗ , Sophie Warny...wax hydrogen isotope pollen climate model Antarctic Peninsula Eocene a b s t r a c t The late Eocene to...transition (EOT) witnessed a major ice advance on Antarctica. Because of the paucity of accessible outcrops...known about hydrological conditions in the Antarctic Peninsula during the late Eocene prior to the major...NBP0602A-3C, adjacent to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, with sediments dated to 35.9 ± 1.1 Ma providing
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Paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula View of Seymour Island looking northeastward from...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... Geology—Antarctic regions—Seymour Island. 2. Paleontology—Antarctic regions—Seymour Island. I. Feldmann...Seymour Island, Antarctica 4 ..... William J. Zinsmeister Topographic map of Seymour Island ......
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via High-Temporal Resolution Monitoring in an Antarctic Shallow Coastal Site (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea)...via HighTemporal Resolution Monitoring in an Antarctic Shallow Coastal Site (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea)...(TA), carbon dioxide partial pressure (pCO2 ), calcite, and aragonite (ΩCa , ΩAr )), together with sea...phytoplankton activity. No undersaturation for both calcite and aragonite was recorded during the study period...regard to jurisdictional claims in Keywords: Antarctica; environmental variability; pH measurement; underwater
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reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf Elaine M. Mawbey, Katharine H. Hendry, Mervyn...reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2020)...reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf 3 4 Elaine M. Mawbey1*, Katharine H. Hendry2...E. Jernas7, James A. Smith1 7 8 1. British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge...16 6. College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA. 17 7. Department
 
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