Dataset Entry
Solid Earth - Data Access
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AFI 05/03_01 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Rock samples collected from the Ellsworth Mountains
200+ erratic and bedrock samples were collected from 11 sites along a 350km transect. Rocks include erratic boulders bedrock and sediments from altitudinal transects: sampling consisted of hammer and chisel, petrol-powered rock saw (in a fe...>> |
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AFI 05/03_02 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Powders, solutions and residues
For each of the rock samples analysed in the lab, a (variable) number of laboratory stages are created, including sawing and crushing residues, pure quartz separates, chemical solutions, and AMS targets. ...>> |
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AFI 05/03_03 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - AMS measurements
AMS measurements of cosmogenic isotopes from rock samples collected from the Ellsworth Mountains in 2005/2006. Pressed AMS targets will be measured at SUERC to yield exposure ages. ...>> |
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AFI 05/03_04 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Glacial geomorphological data
Glacial geomorphological data from the Ellsworth Mountains. Satellite imagery and aerial photography, ground truthing, surveying and GPS traverses were used for geomorphological mapping. Additional photographic and weathering data were use...>> |
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AFI 05/03_05 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Ice sheet model runs
The GLIMMER ice sheet model will be used to simulate former ice sheet configurations in the Weddell Sea embayment, constrained against our new field data. ...>> |
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AFI 05/25_01 - Rock samples collected from central Alexander Island in the 2004/2005 field season.
Rock samples were collected from the northern LeMay Range, southern Douglas Range and the Lully Foothills of Alexander Island, Antarctica, and transferred to the Open University ("OU") via the British Antarctic Survey. Samples wer...>> |
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AFI 05/25_02 - Data for Ar-Ar and U-Pb isotopic dating, and petrography of rock samples collected from central Alexander Island
Ar-Ar dating of mylonites and detrital grains from central Alexander Island has been completed. U-Pb dating of detrital zircons has also been completed. ...>> |
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AFI 05/25_03 - Mapping and measurement of rock-types and structures collected from central Alexander Island
Key geological boundaries were identified and mapped onto aerial photos and satellite images. ...>> |
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AFI 07/03_01 - Geological samples
The (roughly) 10 week field campaign in 2007/2008 was used primarily for sample collection, with the rest of the time being used for mapping. All of the samples taken were of rocks that were found cropping out as nunataks. The investigati...>> |
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AFI 07/03_02 - Geological analyses
Geological analyses were conducted on the samples collected in Dronning-Maud Land during the 2007-2008 field work. Analyses included grain-size detemination, dating, whole rock and inclusion mineralogy, and geochemical analysis....>> |
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AFI 09/01_01 - Geodatabase of terrestrial and marine dates
More well-constrained dates are urgently required in order to reduce the complexity visible in radiocarbon dates on the continental shelf. The geodatabase provides many conflicting ages, and improving chronological control on ice sheet retr...>> |
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AFI 09/01_03 - Cosmogenic nuclide age data from James Ross Island
Cosmogenic nuclide ages from James Ross Island...>> |
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AFI 09/01_04 - Geological samples
Geological samples from the 2010/11 field season...>> |
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Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) measurements on geological samples from the Theron Mountains, Antarctica collected during the 2004/2005 field season
Laboratory measurements of the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS), made on a collection of sill samples. AMS involves the collection of some 1 metric tonne of oriented samples and the lab based determination of the magmatic flow fa...>> |
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Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) - Gravity
During the International Polar Year 2007-1009, the seven nation Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition aquired a detailed image of the ice sheet bed deep in the interior of East Antarctica. Airborne geophysical methods were use...>> |
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Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) - Magnetics
During the International Polar Year 2007-1009, the seven nation Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition aquired a detailed image of the ice sheet bed deep in the interior of East Antarctica. Airborne geophysical methods were use...>> |
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Argon-Argon dating, field data and selected geochemical analysis data of rock samples collected in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica in 2000/2001
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This case (Collaborative Awards in S...>> |
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BAS Geological Data - Overview
The British Antarctic Survey holds one of the most extensive collections of Antarctic rocks and fossils anywhere in the world. These are predominately from the Antarctic Peninsula region and Scotia Arc, although there is also important mat...>> |
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BAS Geological Data - Type and Figured Fossil Collection
The palaeontology collection at the British Antarctic Survey is a unique and internationally important collection of specimens sourced predominantly from the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc. The collection was started in the 1940s and co...>> |
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Dredge sampling information from the Scotia Sea collected during February and March 2004
The target area was along the eastern segments of the West Scotia Ridge, an ocean spreading centre which stopped spreading about 10 million years ago. The spreading centre has high topographic relief and contains an axial rift, which has fl...>> |
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Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected by dredging in the Scotia Sea during February and March 2004
The initial aim of this project was to carry out a higher resolution geochemical study of mantle flow using existing samples. This confirmed flow from the Bouvet domain into the East Scotia Sea and placed constraints on flow pathways. The s...>> |
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Geological field observations from the Theron Mountains, Antarctica collected during the 2004/2005 field season
Field observations, made during the 2004/2005 field season, using such features as sill steps, sill bridges, orientated phenocrysts and asymmetric structures to determine regional magma flow directions in the Theron Mountains. A full photog...>> |
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Geological samples from the Theron Mountains, Antarctica collected during the 2004/2005 field season
Collection of over 1 tonne of rock samples in the Theron Mountains, with an emphasis on the mainline of the enscarpment, which was reached by climbing the scree slopes at the base of the cliffs or by traversing the skyline, during the 2004/...>> |
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Geological station and sample field data plus processed geochemical data from rocks collected in eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica during the 2002/2003 field season
Examining the provenance of certain sedimentary rock sequences can potentially identify where sequences were originally deposited in relation to each other. Minerals found in sediments that are resistant to earth surface processes such as w...>> |
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Multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler data collected in the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
The main aim of this project was to carry out the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Sea, using sediment cores, swath bathymetry by means of the EM120 multibeam echo sounder and th...>> |
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Raw geochemical analyses data (zircon analysis) from rocks collected in eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica during the 2002/2003 field season
A new technique that coupled SHRIMP U-Pb analyses with Laser ablation ICP isotope analyses for detrital zircons enabled the provenance of sediments from the English Coast region to be better assessed than had been previously possible. Such...>> |
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Rock samples collected by dredging in the Scotia Sea during February and March 2004
Sampling was undertaken within the West Scotia Sea in an attempt to identify the boundary between the Pacific and Bouvet mantle domains and so understand, quantify and document the flow of mantle - which is important for understanding globa...>> |
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Rock samples collected in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica in 2000/2001
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This CASE (Collaborative Awards in S...>> |
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Rock samples, rock powders and mineral seperates collected from eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica during the 2002/2003 field season
Despite the important tectonic and stratigraphic setting, rocks from the English Coast area remain largely unstudied, as the paucity of exposure has hindered detailed structural and sedimentological analysis. Samples were collected for zir...>> |
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Sediment cores collected in the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
The main aim of this project was to carry out the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Sea, using sediment cores, swath bathymetry by means of the EM120 multibeam echo sounder and th...>> |
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Soil, rock and biological samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, Antarctica, 2001/2002
The general reference data consists of soil, rock and biological samples. These were analysed for grain size, CHN and carbon isotopes. ...>> |
