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1. Amery Ice Shelf Borehole Measurements in 1968 [AIS_1968_borehole]
In 1968 the Australian Antarctic Division had a group of four men spend over a year on the Amery Ice Shelf. As part of their program of work, they drilled a number of boreholes on the shelf and took ...


2. Reconstructing the foraging ecology and molecular evolution of sub-Antarctic penguins: A pilot study [AAS_3203]
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 3203 See the link below for public details on this project. Public Summary High-order predators rely on the productivity of the Southern Ocean marine ...


3. AAD publications database [AAD_Publications]
This database is a catalogue for the list of publications held by the Australian Antarctic Division. The database is available online at the URL given below. In some cases, pdf downloads are available, ...


4. International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature [G02201]
The International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature collection (formerly known as the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project) is an online data collection ...


5. Radiocarbon dates in the Lutzow-Holm Bay (Antarctica) Region [NIPR_GEO_RADIOCARBON]
A map and booklet are available (special map series of National Institute of Polar Research, No. 6).


6. Palaeontology and Palaeoenvironment of the Marine Plain area (Vestfold Hills) in the Pliocene [ASAC_884]
This project is very closely related to ASAC project 666 (ASAC_666). See that project for more details. A copy of the masters thesis arising from the project is attached to the record. Physical ...


7. Development of tree ring like proxy on arctic shrubs Cassiope tetragona to reconstruct polar climate [Cassiope_Arctic_Climate_Proxy_Weijers_IPY59_NL]
Annual stem length, annual number of leaves, annual average leaf length, annual total leaf length and leaf lifespan. All of Cassiope tetragona. These parameters were measured at three sites: Ny-?lesund ...


8. Pleistocene sedimentary deposits on subantarctic Macquarie Island: Contribution to IGBP-Pages Pole Equator Pole Transect II [ASAC_904]
Macquarie Island is an emergent part of the Macquarie Ridge Complex composed of ocean-floor rocks of Miocene age now 4000 m above the ocean floor. Anumber of landforms, including palaeobeaches now ...


9. The Biostratigraphy of Middle and Late Cambrian Faunas of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica [ASAC_143]
Most of the material refers to northern Victoria Land and was collected over two summer seasons (1974-75 with NZARP and in 1981-82 as part of the International North Victoria Land Expedition which ...


10. Upper Palaeozoic Studies - Amery Group at Beaver Lake [ASAC_53]
From the abstract of the referenced papers: The northern Prince Charles Mountains overlook the western side of the 700km long Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf drainage system. Within these mountains, ...


11. Ocean Drilling Program: Prydz Bay - Clasts of the Cenozoic Glacial Deposits, Glacial Ice Derivation and Hidden East Antarctic Geology [ASAC_258]
This data were collected as part of the Ocean Drilling Program. All data were collected on Leg 119. The cruise for Leg 119 began at Port Louis Harbor, Mauritius, and finished at the Port of Fremantle, ...


12. Basin Analysis of the Permo-Triassic Amery Group, Northern Prince Charles Mountains [ASAC_1]
From the abstracts of some of the referenced papers: Megafloral remains recovered from the Jetty Member and the upper part of the Flagstone Bench Formation, Amery Group include Dicroidium and Pagiophyllum. ...


13. Distribution and Viability of Zooplankton Eggs from Anoxic Sediments from the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica [ASAC_706]
Data set contains sediment cores from three saline lakes in the Vestfold Hills. The three lakes are Ace Lake, Lake Pendant and Lake Abraxas. Short cores from each lake are sectioned into 1 cm intervals. ...


14. Geological Development of the Proterozoic Basement of East Antarctica in the Prydz Bay-Prince Charles Mountains Region [ASAC_51]
The structural and metamorphic history of the Proterozoic of the northern Prince Charles Mountains will be determined and compared with the geological history of the Prydz Bay region. The nature of ...


15. Neogene glacial geology of the Prince Charles Mountains [ASAC_2086]
From the abstracts fo some of the referenced papers: In the Amery Oasis of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, the glaciomarine Bardin Bluffs Formation of the Pagodroma Group was deposited between ...


16. Antarctic ice sheet history and stability: baseline palaeoclimate research on the Pagodroma Group, Prince Charles Mountains. [ASAC_1220]
Detailed sedimentary information and palaeontological samples were collected from Battye Glacier Formation, of the Pagodroma Group in the Prince Charles Mountains, an area where little information ...


17. Proterozoic and Palaeozoic evolution of the Rauer Group [ASAC_1129]
---- Public Summary from Project ---- The Gondwana continent existed in the Proterozoic, that is some 500 million years ago, in which Antarctica - Australia - India were once joined as a large landmass. ...


18. Luminescence dating of marine and fluvial sediments from Bunger Hills [ASAC_2237]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2237 See the link below for public details on this project. Two excel spreadsheets are available for download from the provided URL. Taken from the 1997-1998 ...


19. Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Pagadroma Group [ASAC_1065]
From the abstract of the referenced papers: The northern Prince Charles Mountains overlook the western side of the 700km long Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf drainage system. Within these mountains, ...


20. Rates of Quaternary Ice Movement Across the Vestfold Hills from Exposure Age Dating. [ASAC_831]
The data set consist of in-situ cosmogenic Be-10 and Al-26 surface exposure ages for subglacial erratics in the Vestfold Hills. Samples were collected during the 1994/95 summer season ...


21. Stratigraphy of the Pliocene Sorsdal Formation, Marine Plain, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica [marine_plain_grain_size]
The data are grain size analyses conducted by Geoscience Australia of samples collected during drilling the sections at Marine Plain. The results are summarised in the Antarctic science paper on ...


22. Palaeogene Bioistratigraphy, Heard Island [ASAC_411]
From the abstract of one of the referenced papers: Recent discoveries in the Vestfold Hills, in the Larsemann Hills and near the South Pole, of fossil vertebrates, microfossils and wood ...


23. Cainozoic History of the Bunger Hills Region: A Study of the Dynamic Interaction of Ice and Land [ASAC_276]
From the abstracts of some of the referenced papers: The raised marine terraces of the icebound Bunger Oasis are described. The Holocene marine transgression ...


24. Quaternary Vegetation History of Australian Subantarctic Islands [ASAC_77]
From the abstracts of some of the referenced papers: On Macquarie Island six palaeolake deposits dated from terminal Pleistocene to early-mid Holocene have been found at the top of cliffs ...


25. Stability, Glaciological and Depositional Conditions of Continental Ice Sheet Edge at Vestfold Hills [ASAC_275]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 275 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstracts of the referenced papers: The East Antarctica ice ...


26. Environmental History of Small Lake Catchments in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica [ASAC_31]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 31 See the link below for public details on this project. Ammoelphidiella antractica Conato and Segre occours in thin unconsolidated ...


27. Metamorphic and Structural Evolution of the Precambrian Basement in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains [ASAC_56]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 56 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstract of the referenced paper: Thin mafic dykes emplaced ...


28. Fieldwork and sampling at Loewe Massif-Amery Oasis [ASAC_1071_Loewe]
At Loewe Massif and Amery Oasis, samples were taken; --> for sediment analysis (XRF geochemistry and grain size) --> for geochronology (cosmogenic isotope analysis). ...


29. Map of geomorphic features at Beaver Lake-Amery Oasis [ASAC_1071_Geomorphic_Map]
The data include a 1:10,000 scale map of the surfical glacial and periglacial features of the Amery Oasis, East Antarctica. Features currently include: areas covered by exposed bedrock, ...


30. Quaternary, Geomorphological and Botanical Studies in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains [ASAC_290]
The aim was to study the glacial history, geomorphology and plant distribution in the Prince Charles Mountains, particularly in the ice-free region around Beaver and Radok Lakes (Amery Oasis). More ...


31. Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica [Type_localities]
This data set lists over 300 organisms that were first described from locations either on the Antarctic continent, or on islands immediately to the north of the Antarctic Peninsula. Sub-Antarctic ...


32. Sample Tracking Database (STD) [DB_STD]
The Sample Tracking Database (STD) was created to track samples from field work to various stages of shipping and storage through to analysis and possible disposal or destruction. The Sample Tracking ...


33. Australian Geological Activities in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains [Geology_NPCMs]
A dataset describing Australian Geological activities in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains from 1987 to 1996. The data are stored in an excel spreadsheet and contains information such as dates, ...


34. Cosmogenic dating [RSES_PCM]
The data set consists of cosmogenic exposure ages for samples collected by Research School of Earth Sciences in the Prince Charles Mountains and vicinity. Thus far work has been carried out in the ...


35. Glacial history of the Framnes Mountains, East Antarctica. [ASAC_1332]
Geological evidence from the Framnes Mountain, East Antarctica, will reveal changes in ice thickness from the Last Glacial Maximum 20,000 years ago to the present. A computer simulation of changes ...


36. SCAR Spatial Data Model and Feature Catalogue [DB_Feature_Catalogue]
The SCAR Spatial Data Model has been developed for Geoscience Standing Scientific Group (GSSG). It was presented to XXVII SCAR, 15-26 July 2002, in Shanghai, China. The Spatial Data Model is one ...


37. Permafrost Active Layer Thermal Monitoring in Livingston and Deception Islands (Antarctica). Action to the International Polar Year. [CNDA-ESP_CGL2004-20896-E]
In English: We send two types of data. One of them corresponding to the thermal active layer evolution, temperatures gradient measuring into the soil placed at 5, 15, 40, 90, 150 and 230 cm deep ...


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