Call number:
AWI G9-19-92302
Description / Table of Contents:
Report which attempts to assess the principal problems of antarctic solid-earth science over the decade 1973-83, to evaluate their importance in relation to the south polar regions and the earth as a whole, and to suggest ways and a priority ordering for undertaking their solutions.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
x, 26 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
URL:
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/20174/antarctic-geology-and-solid-earth-geophysics-guidelines-for-us-program
Language:
English
Note:
Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION. -
2. PARTICULAR CONCERNS AND REQUIREMENTS. -
Environmental Safeguards. -
Topographic Mapping. -
Regional Geological and Geophysical Surveying. -
Stateside Analyses. -
Remote Sensing. -
Core Drilling into Bedrock beneath the Ice. -
New Techniques. -
3. INTERCONTINENTAL AND INTRACONTINENTAL RELATIONSIDPS. -
Present Continental Margins. -
Passive Continental Margins. -
Active Continental Margins. -
Pre-Andean Orogenic Belts. -
Gondwanide (Ellsworth) Orogen. -
Borchgrevink Orogen. -
Ross Orogen. -
Relations between East and West Antarctica. -
West Antarctic Geochronology and Geophysics. -
The Ross Embayment. -
Surface-Wave-Dispersion Studies. -
4. ACTIVE CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS AND VOLCANICITY. -
Seismicity. -
Volcanicity. -
Gravity Base Station Ties. -
Gravity Surveys. -
Establishment of Tide Stations and Bench Marks. -
Nonisostatic Crustal Uplift. -
5. STUDIES OF THE LATE CENOZOIC ENVIRONMENT. -
Comparative Glacial Geologic Chronologies. -
Drilling beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. -
Ocean Core Studies. -
6. SPECIAL GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. -
Igneous Processes. -
Jurassic Basalt. -
Active Continental Margin Processes. -
Paleontology. -
Vertebrate Paleontology. -
Invertebrate Paleontology. -
Permian and Triassic Floras. -
7. ANTARCTIC MINERAL RESOURCES. -
8. PRIORITY ORDERING. -
9. SPECIAL RECOMMENDATIONS. -
REFERENCES.
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
