Jurassic trees at Jason Peninsula, Antarctica
Jason Peninsula (66°10'S, 61°00'W) is a prominent feature extending some 80 km into the Larsen Ice Shelf from the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, and consists of widely spaced rock exposures and several ice-domes with elevations up to some 600 m (Fig. 1). The feature was first se...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954102097000576 2024-09-15T17:48:36+00:00 Jurassic trees at Jason Peninsula, Antarctica Valle, R.A. del Lirio, J.M. Lusky, J.C. Morelli, J.R. Nuñez, H.J. 1997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102097000576 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102097000576 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antarctic Science volume 9, issue 4, page 443-444 ISSN 0954-1020 1365-2079 journal-article 1997 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102097000576 2024-08-28T04:03:30Z Jason Peninsula (66°10'S, 61°00'W) is a prominent feature extending some 80 km into the Larsen Ice Shelf from the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, and consists of widely spaced rock exposures and several ice-domes with elevations up to some 600 m (Fig. 1). The feature was first seen from seaward on 1 December 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named one of the high summits “Mount Jason” after his ship. Leading the 1902–1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition, Dr Otto Nordenskjöld observed the area from Borchgrevink Nunatak (66°03'S; 62°30'W) and reported that the summits seen by Larsen were separated from the Antarctic Peninsula. The name “Jason Island” was subsequently adopted for this feature, but in the 1950s researchers belonging to the currently named British Antarctic Survey (BAS) determined Larsen's discovery to be a large peninsula, underlain mainly by calc-alkaline volcanic rocks. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctic Science Antarctica British Antarctic Survey Ice Shelf Larsen Ice Shelf Otto Nordenskjöld Cambridge University Press Antarctic Science 9 4 443 444 |
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Jason Peninsula (66°10'S, 61°00'W) is a prominent feature extending some 80 km into the Larsen Ice Shelf from the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, and consists of widely spaced rock exposures and several ice-domes with elevations up to some 600 m (Fig. 1). The feature was first seen from seaward on 1 December 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named one of the high summits “Mount Jason” after his ship. Leading the 1902–1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition, Dr Otto Nordenskjöld observed the area from Borchgrevink Nunatak (66°03'S; 62°30'W) and reported that the summits seen by Larsen were separated from the Antarctic Peninsula. The name “Jason Island” was subsequently adopted for this feature, but in the 1950s researchers belonging to the currently named British Antarctic Survey (BAS) determined Larsen's discovery to be a large peninsula, underlain mainly by calc-alkaline volcanic rocks. |
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Valle, R.A. del Lirio, J.M. Lusky, J.C. Morelli, J.R. Nuñez, H.J. Jurassic trees at Jason Peninsula, Antarctica |
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Jurassic trees at Jason Peninsula, Antarctica |
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