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Little is known of the wider Antarctic distribution of the upper fast ice community now comprehensively described from McMurdo Sound. We determined the fast ice protist community at Davis Station, East Antarctica and compared it with that of McMurdo Sound. As at McMurdo Sound…
Abstract : Well sorted, fine lithic sandstone within the Drygalski Formation at Cape Lockyer on the … southern tip of Heard Island, preserves a diverse terrestrial palynoflora as well as marine diatoms and a few … foraminifera. A combination of these elements suggests a Late Miocene age (10–5 Ma).
There are very strong thermal gradients between the Antarctic continent and the … sea-ice zone, and between that zone and the ocean to the north. As a result of these contrasts … the sea-ice domain is one of strong cyclogenesis and high cyclone frequency.
Two vascular plant species (hair grass Deschampsia antarctica … and herb Acaena magellanica) from sub-Antarctic Heard Island … were sampled on 5 days between December 2003 and February … 2004.
The oxygen isotopic record obtained from Globigerina bulloides, Globorotalia inflata, and Neogloboquadrina pachyderma … (s.) was analysed for 5 sediment traps moored in the Southern Ocean and Southwest Pacific. The traps extend from Subtropical … to the Polar Frontal environments…
We investigate ice shelf rift propagation using a … combination of GPS and seismic measurements near the … tip of an active rift in the Amery Ice Shelf. These … measurements reveal that propagation occurs in episodic … bursts…