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Geological mapping, observations and sampling for analysis of the geological evolution of North Victoria Land

Entry ID: K051_1984_1985_NZ_1

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Summary

Abstract: Early mapping of the Northern Victoria Land region suggested the presence of three major north-northwest trending belts with differing rocks, structures and geological histories. These differences were suggested to be over-rated and that the relationships between the belts were close. Furthermore, subsequent geochemical work showed that the Cambrian volcanics of the central Bowers belt were ...

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -71.58

S: -73.5

E: 166.88

W: 163.33

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1984-11-05

Stop Date: 1984-12-12

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > NORTH VICTORIA LAND

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > TECTONIC LANDFORMS

SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS > BEDROCK LITHOLOGY

SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS > METAMORPHIC ROCKS

SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Quality All remaining samples and thin sections of all the analysed rocks are kept in the University of Canterbury geological rock collection. For more information, please contact the investigator or the department.

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Antarctica New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Institute, New Zealand

Data Center URL: http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/

Data Center Personnel
Name: SHULAMIT GORDON Phone: +64 3 358 0200 Fax: +64 3 358 0211 Email: s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz Contact Address: Antarctica New Zealand Private Bag 4745 City: Christchurch Country: New Zealand

Personnel

JOHN BRADSHAW

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7779

Fax: +64 3 364 2769

Email: john.bradshaw at canterbury.ac.nz

Contact Address:

Department of Geological Sciences

University of Canterbury

Private Bag 4800

City: Christchurch

Postal Code: 8140

Country: New Zealand

CEISHA POIROT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +64 3 358 0200

Fax: +64 3 358 0211

Email: c.poirot at antarcticanz.govt.nz

Contact Address:

Antarctica New Zealand

Private Bag 4745

City: Christchurch

Country: New Zealand

SHULAMIT GORDON

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +64 3 358 0200

Fax: +64 3 358 0211

Email: s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz

Contact Address:

Antarctica New Zealand

Private Bag 4745

City: Christchurch

Country: New Zealand

Publications/References

Bradshaw, J.D. Begg, J.C. Buggisch, W. Brodie, C. Tessensohn, F. Wright, T.O. New data of Paleozoic stratigraphy and structure in north Victoria Land.New Zealand Antarctic record 6(3): 1-6, 1985.

Bradshaw, J.D. Weaver, S.D. Laird, M.G. Suspect terranes and Cambrian tectonics in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.in: Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the ... circum-Pacific region.Howell D.G. (ed) Tulsa, OK: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. 1985. pp.467-479

Bradshaw, J.D. Terrane displacement and terrane boundaries in northern Victoria Land.in: Papers of the 3rd Circum-Pacific Terrane Conference, 1984, Australia.Leith E.C. (ed) Sydney: Geological Society of Australia. 1985. pp.30-33 [Miscellaneous publication: 14]

Bradshaw, J.D. Terrane boundaries and terrane displacement in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: some problems and constraints. in: Terrane accretion and orogenic belts.Leitch E.C. Schreiber E. (eds) Washington: American Geophysical Union. 1987. pp.199-205[ Geodynamic series: 19]

Bradshaw, J.D. Terrane boundaries in north Victoria Land.in: Proceedings of the Meeting on Geosciences in Victoria Land, Antarctica, Sienna, 1987. Sienna: Societa Geologica Italiana. 1987. pp.9-15 Memorie della Societa Geologica Italiana: 33]

Bradshaw, J.D. Cretaceous dispersion of Gondwana: continental and oceanic spreading in the south-west Pacific-Antarctic sector. in: Geological evolution of Antarctica; proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Cambridge, 1987.Thomson M.R.A. Crame J.A. Thomson J.W. (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. pp.581-585

Bradshaw, J.D. 2007. The Ross Orogen and the Lachlan Fold Belt in Marie Byrd Land, Northern Victoria Land and New Zealand: Implications for the tectonic setting of the Lachlan Fold Belt in Antarctica. USGS OF-2007-1047, short research paper 059, 2007.

Kleinschmidt, G. & Tessensohn, F. 1987. Early Palaeozoic westward directed subduction at the Pacific Margin of Antarctica. In: McKenzie, G. D., ed. Gondwana Six: Structure, Tectonics, and Geophysics. pp. 89-105. Geophysical Monograph 40, American Geophysical Union.,

Wright, T. O. and C. Brodie (1987), The Handler Formation, a new unit of the Robertson Bay Group, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, in Gondwana Six: Structure, tectonics and Geophysics, edited by McKenzie, G.D. pp. 25-29. Monograph 40, American Geophys. Union, Washington.

Wright, T. O., R. J. Ross, and J. E. Repetski (1984), Newly discovered youngest Cambrian or oldest Ordovician fossils from the Roberson Bay terrane (formerly Precambrian), northern Victorian land, Antarctica, Geology, 12, 301-305.

Tessensohn, F., Henjes-Kunst, F., 2005. Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: far-travelled or local products. In: A.P.M. Vaughan, Leat, P.T., Pankhurst, R. J., (Editor), Terrane Processes on the margins of Gondwana. Geological Society of London Special Publication 246. Geological Society of London, London, pp. 275-291.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2005-09-22

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-06-06

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