Author: British Antarctic Survey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780565094652
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Focusing on the geography and physical phenomena of this remote region, this book contains all the information visitors will need during their trip. It describes and explains the geographical setting, climate and weather, geology, glaciology, and much more, and includes the location of research stations and historic sites
The Oceanites Site Guide to the Antarctic Peninsula
Author: Ron Naveen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966101102
Category : Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966101102
Category : Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Antarctic Peninsula Region of the Southern Ocean
Author: Eugene G. Morozov
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030789276
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The book is based on results from the Russian expedition in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin in the northern part of the Weddell Sea, as well as on the review of earlier research in the region. The main goal of the research was to collect the newest data and study the physical properties and ecology of this key region of the Southern Ocean. Data analysis is supplemented with numerical modeling of the atmosphere-ocean interaction and circulation in the adjacent region, including research on rogue waves. The focus of the study was the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, currents and water properties in the Bransfield Strait and Antarctic Sound, properties of seawater, currents, ecosystem and biological communities in the Powell Basin of the northwestern Weddell Sea, and their variations. An attempt is made to reveal the role of various components of the Antarctic environment in the formation of biological productivity and maintenance of the Antarctic krill population. This is especially important as in the last decades the Antarctic environment has experienced significant changes related to the global climatic trends.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030789276
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The book is based on results from the Russian expedition in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin in the northern part of the Weddell Sea, as well as on the review of earlier research in the region. The main goal of the research was to collect the newest data and study the physical properties and ecology of this key region of the Southern Ocean. Data analysis is supplemented with numerical modeling of the atmosphere-ocean interaction and circulation in the adjacent region, including research on rogue waves. The focus of the study was the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, currents and water properties in the Bransfield Strait and Antarctic Sound, properties of seawater, currents, ecosystem and biological communities in the Powell Basin of the northwestern Weddell Sea, and their variations. An attempt is made to reveal the role of various components of the Antarctic environment in the formation of biological productivity and maintenance of the Antarctic krill population. This is especially important as in the last decades the Antarctic environment has experienced significant changes related to the global climatic trends.
Geology and Paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula
Author: Rodney M. Feldmann
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081371169X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081371169X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Natural History of the Antarctic Peninsula
Author: Sanford A. Moss
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231062695
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Explores the natural riches of the coldest continent and examines the plant and animal life, particularly penguins, birds, seals, and fish.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231062695
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Explores the natural riches of the coldest continent and examines the plant and animal life, particularly penguins, birds, seals, and fish.
Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Author: Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
Publisher description
Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-up
Author: J.L. Smellie
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 178620536X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
This memoir is the first to review all of Antarctica’s volcanism between 200 million years ago and the Present. The region is still volcanically active. The volume is an amalgamation of in-depth syntheses, which are presented within distinctly different tectonic settings. Each is described in terms of (1) the volcanology and eruptive palaeoenvironments; (2) petrology and origin of magma; and (3) active volcanism, including tephrochronology. Important volcanic episodes include: astonishingly voluminous mafic and felsic volcanic deposits associated with the Jurassic break-up of Gondwana; the construction and progressive demise of a major Jurassic to Present continental arc, including back-arc alkaline basalts and volcanism in a young ensialic marginal basin; Miocene to Pleistocene mafic volcanism associated with post-subduction slab-window formation; numerous Neogene alkaline volcanoes, including the massive Erebus volcano and its persistent phonolitic lava lake, that are widely distributed within and adjacent to one of the world’s major zones of lithospheric extension (the West Antarctic Rift System); and very young ultrapotassic volcanism erupted subglacially and forming a world-wide type example (Gaussberg).
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 178620536X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
This memoir is the first to review all of Antarctica’s volcanism between 200 million years ago and the Present. The region is still volcanically active. The volume is an amalgamation of in-depth syntheses, which are presented within distinctly different tectonic settings. Each is described in terms of (1) the volcanology and eruptive palaeoenvironments; (2) petrology and origin of magma; and (3) active volcanism, including tephrochronology. Important volcanic episodes include: astonishingly voluminous mafic and felsic volcanic deposits associated with the Jurassic break-up of Gondwana; the construction and progressive demise of a major Jurassic to Present continental arc, including back-arc alkaline basalts and volcanism in a young ensialic marginal basin; Miocene to Pleistocene mafic volcanism associated with post-subduction slab-window formation; numerous Neogene alkaline volcanoes, including the massive Erebus volcano and its persistent phonolitic lava lake, that are widely distributed within and adjacent to one of the world’s major zones of lithospheric extension (the West Antarctic Rift System); and very young ultrapotassic volcanism erupted subglacially and forming a world-wide type example (Gaussberg).
Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula
Author: Jorge Rabassa
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 100015145X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach. It is based on contributions presented at the South American Regional Meeting held in Neuquen, Argentina.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 100015145X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach. It is based on contributions presented at the South American Regional Meeting held in Neuquen, Argentina.
Geological Evolution of Antarctica
Author: Michael Robert Alexander Thomson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521372664
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Surveys the tectonic evolution of the Antarctic crust and the palaeoenvironmental evolution of Antarctica since the Late Mesozoic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521372664
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Surveys the tectonic evolution of the Antarctic crust and the palaeoenvironmental evolution of Antarctica since the Late Mesozoic.
Geology of the Antarctic Peninsula
Author: Garik Ėduardovich Grikurov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Translation of Goologiya Anlarkticheskogo poluostrova, Moscow, "Nauka", 1973.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Translation of Goologiya Anlarkticheskogo poluostrova, Moscow, "Nauka", 1973.
Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula
Author: John B. Anderson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118671678
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula presents the analysis of data collected during the SHALDRIL program, which sampled the most complete Cenozoic stratigraphic section in the Antarctic Peninsula. The stratigraphic intervals sampled fill major gaps in the existing stratigraphic record in the region, which is believed to have been the last place in Antarctica to become fully glaciated and, as such, the last refugium for plants and animals living on the continent. Providing previously unpublished results from studies aimed at improving our understanding of the changes in climate, glacial setting, and fauna and flora that took place over the past 30 million years, the volume highlights include discussions of marine seismic and drill core records documenting the initial growth and expansion of an ice sheet across the northernmost Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf in the northwestern Weddell Sea. The book features: Detailed vegetation and phytoplankton evolution from greenhouse through icehouse conditions in Antarctica's last refugium Sand grain texture and micromorphology indicating ice sheet control of weathering style Exhumational history around the Drake Passage margins from thermochronology and sediment provenance Comprehensive review of the opening of the ocean passageway between Antarctica and South America and the associated regional tectonics. Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula will be of interest to geologists, climatologists, and glaciologists interested in climate and cryosphere evolution and those factors that regulate it.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118671678
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula presents the analysis of data collected during the SHALDRIL program, which sampled the most complete Cenozoic stratigraphic section in the Antarctic Peninsula. The stratigraphic intervals sampled fill major gaps in the existing stratigraphic record in the region, which is believed to have been the last place in Antarctica to become fully glaciated and, as such, the last refugium for plants and animals living on the continent. Providing previously unpublished results from studies aimed at improving our understanding of the changes in climate, glacial setting, and fauna and flora that took place over the past 30 million years, the volume highlights include discussions of marine seismic and drill core records documenting the initial growth and expansion of an ice sheet across the northernmost Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf in the northwestern Weddell Sea. The book features: Detailed vegetation and phytoplankton evolution from greenhouse through icehouse conditions in Antarctica's last refugium Sand grain texture and micromorphology indicating ice sheet control of weathering style Exhumational history around the Drake Passage margins from thermochronology and sediment provenance Comprehensive review of the opening of the ocean passageway between Antarctica and South America and the associated regional tectonics. Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula will be of interest to geologists, climatologists, and glaciologists interested in climate and cryosphere evolution and those factors that regulate it.