The Transantarctic Mountains : Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2011. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. East Antarctic Ice Sheet.-18. Meteorites on Ice
- 19. Glaciation of Southern Victoria Land
- 20. Antarctica in Retrospect
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Geologic Time Scale.