This book presents a summary of the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains for Earth scientists who may want to work there or who need an overview of the geologic history of this region. In addition, the properties of the East Antarctic ice sheet and of the meteorites that accumulate on its surface are treated in separate chapters. The presentation ends with the Cenozoic glaciation of the Transantarctic Mountains including the limnology and geochemical evolution of the saline lakes in the ice-free valleys.
• The subject matter in this book is presented in chronological order starting about 750 million years ago and continuing to the present time.
• The chapters can be read selectively because the introduction to each chapter identifies the context that gives relevance to the subject matter to be discussed.
• The text is richly illustrated with 330 original line drawings as well as with 182 color maps and photographs.
• The book contains indexes of both subject matter and of authors’ names that allow it to be used as an encyclopedia of the Transantarctic Mountains and of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
• Most of the chapters are supplemented by Appendices containing data tables, additional explanations of certain phenomena (e.g., the formation and seasonal destruction of stratospheric ozone), and illustrative calculations (e.g., 38Cl dates of meteorites).
• The authors have spent a combined total of fourteen field seasons between 1964 and 1995 doing geological research in the Transantarctic Mountains with logistical support by the US Antarctic Program.
• Although Antarctica is remote and inaccessible, tens of thousands of scientists of many nationalities and their assistants have worked there and even larger numbers of investigators will work there in the future.

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by Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing

Faure, Gunter, Mensing, Teresa M.

Springer Science+Business Media B.V.; Springer

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Kluwer Academic Publishers

United States, United States of America

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2010

Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2010

Netherlands, Netherlands

1. ed, Berlin, 2010

1st Edition., 2010

2011, 2010-10-12

2011, US, 2010

lg2761526

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Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Exploration of Antarctica....Pages 3-40
Antarctica: The Continent....Pages 41-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Southern Victoria Land; Basement Rocks....Pages 67-97
Northern Victoria Land....Pages 99-144
Central Transantarctic Mountains....Pages 145-172
The Queen Maud Mountains....Pages 173-199
Horlick Mountains....Pages 201-224
The Far-Eastern Mountains....Pages 225-273
From Rodinia to Gondwana....Pages 275-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
The Beacon Supergroup....Pages 289-330
Beacon Supergroup; Special topics....Pages 331-371
The Ferrar Group: Kirkpatrick Basalt....Pages 373-414
Ferrar Group: Dolerite Sills and the Dufek Intrusion....Pages 415-469
Kirwan Volcanics, Queen Maud Land....Pages 471-489
Break-up of Gondwana and Assembly of Antarctica....Pages 491-515
Front Matter....Pages 517-517
Cenozoic Volcanoes....Pages 519-571
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet....Pages 573-633
Meteorites on Ice....Pages 635-691
Glaciaton of Southern Victoria Land....Pages 693-758
Antarctica in Retrospect....Pages 759-759
Back Matter....Pages 761-804

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