The transantarctic mountains: rocks, ice meteorites and water/ Gunter Faure and Teresa M. Mensing
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Springer, 2010Description: xviii, 804 pISBN: 9781402084065Subject(s): Antarctica--Transantarctic Mountains -- Discoveries in geography Geochemistry -- GeographyDDC classification: 559.89Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 559.89 FAU/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P27293 |
Part I: EXPLORATION AND CHARACTERIZATION --
1. The Exploration of Antarctica --
2. Antarctica: The Continent --
Part II: THE BASEMENT ROCKS. --
3. Southern Victoria Land; Basement Rocks --
4. Northern Victoria Land --
5. Central Transantarctic Mountains --
6. The Queen Maud Mountains --
7. Horlick Mountains --
8. The Far-Eastern Mountains --
9. From Rodinia to Gondwana --
Part III: GONDWANA: GROWTH AND DISINTEGRATION --
10. The Beacon Supergroup --
11. Beacon Supergroup; Special topics --
12. The Ferrar Group: Kirkpatrick Basalt --
13. Ferrar Group: Dolerite sills and the Dufek intrusion --
14. Kirwan Volcanics, Queen Maud Land --
15. Break-up of Gondwana and Assembly of Antarctica --
Part IV: FIRE AND ICE --
16. Cenozoic volcanoes --
17. East Antarctic Ice Sheet.-18. Meteorites on Ice --
19. Glaciation of Southern Victoria Land --
20. Antarctica in Retrospect --
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