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Conglomerate from
Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Island
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Type:Conglomerate
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Conglomerate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1423467
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1423467:7
GUID (UUID V4):c8d44617-4c3a-4049-a1eb-ab4ae35b5b00
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tectonic evolution of the South Orkney Microcontinent, Scotia arc, Antarctica R. A. J. TROUW*, C. W. PASSCHIER†...accepted 13 January 1997) Abstract – The South Orkney Islands are the exposed part of a continental fragment...fragment on the southern limb of the Scotia arc. The islands are to a large extent composed of metapelites and...facies, are of Jurassic age (176–200 Ma). On Powell Island, in the centre of the archipelago, five phases...Introduction The South Orkney Islands are located at 60°35'S, 45°00'W on the south side of the Scotia
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ABSTRACT A review is given of the geology of the islands of the Scotia Arc. The provenance of the sedimentary...materials is considered and it is concluded that the islands probably represent areas with a crustal structure...the Caribbean. I. INTRODUCTION N EAR the tip of South America, in Tierra del Fuego, the Andes curve round...sea. Farther south, on the opposite side of Drake Passage, the narrow mountainous ELEPHANT and CLARENCF...CLARENCF SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS TEXT-FIG. 1.—Map of the Scotia Sea area showing the
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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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Observations in the South Shetlands, the Palmer Archipelago, and Graham Land, Antarctica. By David Ferguson.... . Antarctic Island Groups a n d G r a h a m L a n d in relation to the F a l k l a n d Islands T h...t h S h e t l a n d Islands a n d Adjacent Lands Physical Character of t h e South S h e t l a n d s a...n d G r o u p of Islands . T h e E l e p h a n t Island G r o u p Cornwallis Island . . . . . . . Clarence...Clarence Island . . . . . . . B r i d g m a n Island . . . . . . . K i n g George Island A d m i r a l
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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 ÂŁ2.45 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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United Kingdom 655 Metamorphic rocks in the Antarctic Peninsula region ANKE S. WENDT ∗ , ALAN P. M . VAUGHAN...VAUGHAN & ALEXANDER TATE British Antarctic Survey, Geosciences Division, High Cross Madingley Road, Cambridge...distribution of metamorphic rocks in the Antarctic Peninsula region, new quantitative peak pressure–temperature...pressure–temperature data along the Antarctic Peninsula, and a literature review on the current knowledge of metamorphic...metamorphic conditions in the Antarctic Peninsula region have been compiled into a single metamorphic
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Sedimentary Rocks at the Pacific Margin in Western Antarctica. By G. HYDEN~%P. W. G. TANNER,Cambridge *)...Abstract We infer that the Trinity Peninsula Group of the Antarctic Peninsula was deposited in a fore-arc basin(s)...pre-Jurassic metamorphic complex. The Trinity Peninsula Group has been re-examined in the type area and...almost continuously around the Pacific margin from South America to New Zealand. *) Address of authors: G...G. HYDEN and P. W. G. TANNER, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Madingley
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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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earth.annualreviews.org Gondwana, Scotia Sea, South Atlantic, Weddell Sea This article’s doi: 10.1...Andes through the active South Sandwich volcanic arc to the Antarctic Peninsula. Its origins lie in the...ïŹ‚are-up. Relative motion between South America, Africa, and East Antarctica during the opening of the southern...blocks eastward to form the North and South Scotia Ridges. The South Sandwich volcanic arc system originated...beneath oceanic crust formed between South America and Antarctica and serves as an excellent tectonic
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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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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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U G H A N & R. A. L I V E R M O R E British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3...Triassic-Early Jurassic event is called the Peninsula Orogeny in West Antarctica (Miller 1983) and the Rangitata...event is called the Palmer Land event in the Antarctic Peninsula region (Kellogg & Rowley 1989; redated by...Dating technique/criteria Antarctica South Orkney Islands Antarctic Peninsula Pensacola Mountains Deformation...Scotia complex rocks Peninsula Orogeny affecting Alexander Island and Trinity Peninsula accretionary rocks
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MARGINS Volume | The South Atlantic THE OCEAN BASINS AND MARGINS Volume 1: The South Atlantic Âą 1973 ...Department of Geology Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Volume 1 The South Atlantic PLENUM PRESS...GĂ©ttingen, Germany Department of Geology Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Walter C....Ohio State University, Columbus Port Elizabeth, South Africa Institute of Polar Studies Department of...Department of Geology Case Western Reserve University Department of Geology Case Western Reserve University
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1985 with his map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings...Polar Research Center 275 Mendenhall Laboratory 125 South Oval Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA faure.1@osu.edu...during the 1969/1970 field season. Prolog Antarctica! The very word brings to mind images of fierce...winds, bone-chilling cold, and utter desolation. Antarctica has the reputation of being a hostile place unfit...worked there have a very different impression of Antarctica. To us it is a place of unsurpassed beauty where
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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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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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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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America Bulletin Regional Geochronology of Chile South of 50° Latitude MARTIN HALPERN Geological Society...Dallas, Texas 75230 Regional Geochronology of Chile South of 50° Latitude ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION In southern...Pacific Ocean is rimmed by a complex array of islands and mountain chains. Because of the remote setting...Tertiary age. T h e area under investigation lies south of the Chile Rise and east of the presently inactive...Trench near the boundary between the South American and Antarctic plates. T h e aim of this study is to
Journal (issue)
three key regions were seleeted: 1) the Andes in South Ameriea and the Roekies in North Ameriea 2) the...Giese et al. using new data from boreholes of RĂŒgen island. The eontribution of Birkenmajer deseribes a region...the Paeifie Margin of the Northern Antaretie Peninsula". One step back in the Earth's history is done...lower crust, based on the migrated elements of the Western and Central Alps (Penninie to Jura); solid section...the ECORS-CROP line near the northern end of the Western Alps there is now a comparatively dense network
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complex characterized by bedded chert, MORB and ocean-island basalts, reef limestones, and graywackes. The spatiotemporal...and of the B-type blueschists on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. The oldest blueschists, about 700... and along the NW margin of the Tarim craton, western China. These occurrences indicate that, by Late...continental-collision orogenic belts such as the Western Alps (Chopin, 1984), the Scandinavian Caledonides...ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic terranes—including the Western Alps, the Norwegian Caledonides, northern Kazakhstan
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SEDIMENTS/Overview POLLEN RECORDS, LATE PLEISTOCENE/Western North America No part of this publication may be...those found in the Vostok ice-core record from Antarctica. By comparing the timing of the records from...Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Cary Mock University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Ed Brook Oregon State...bubbles trapped in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica have given Quaternary scientists an entirely...Core Records/Correlations Between Greenland and Antarctica. Paleoceanography. Paleoclimate Modeling/Last
Report (volume)
Australian Mineral Foundation 63 Conyngham St Glenside South Australia 5065 Australia (Orders: Tel: (08)379-0444)...collectively present data from deep sea drilling in the Western Pacific, in particular the geochemical variations...rocks of the Papuan and Marum ophiolites of the island of New Guinea, these rocks appear to have strong...the Josephine ophiolite from the Oman and Bay of Islands ophiolites, which probably formed at fast-spreading...sediments were thrust >100 km southeastward beneath western North America, and a coeval magmatic arc (Chetco
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795 ) XXXI.—Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917: The Natural History of Pack-ice as observed...miles, an achievement without parallel in the Antarctic. The principle adopted was to keep to the east...effected, through the fringe of the pack, to Elephant Island. These seventeen months of close association...been afforded to a British expedition in the Antarctic. The conclusions thus obtained, particularly as...drift, will, it is hoped, be of use to all future Antarctic navigators. From comparative study it appears
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17th century, holidaying gentry would flock to the south coast of England to collect “curios” such as “snakestones”...University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and then came to western Canada where she has worked in exploration for...Award to recognize significant contributions to Western Canadian Palaeontology (Bulletin, June 2020, pp...Hope Johnson Award recognizes contributions to western Canadian palaeontology by non-professional palaeontologists...Newfoundland; Saint Pierre & Miquelon; Burin Peninsula. Article and photos (unless otherwise noted) by
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Battle of, 1995 USE Yingxiong Islands (China), Battle Yingxiong Islands (China) USE and Washington...people) USE Yaka (African people) (China) Taipa Island (China) I-liu District UF laido Gilbertese...1955 Interstate 65 1-66 (Va. 1-71 Yingxiong Islands (China) Interstate 64 1-65 USE USE I-Ta-Wah...(Extinct city) lAmal Peninsula (R.S.F.S.R.) USE lAmal Peninsula (Russia) lAmal Peninsula (Russia) UF lAmal...lAmal Peninsula (R.S.F.S.R.) [Former heading] Poluostrov lAmal (Russia) Poluostrov Yamal (Russia) Y'amal
 
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