Integrating Geomorphological and Paleoecological Studies to Reconstruct Neogene Environments of the Transantarctic Mountains

• Main Authors: Ashworth, Allan, Lewis, Adam
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2009
• Subjects: Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Antarctic Earth Sciences; Geochronology; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Antarctica; Solid Earth; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Tundra
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600081

Abstract: This project studies the last vestiges of life in Antarctica from exceptionally well-preserved fossils of tundra life--mosses, diatoms, ostracods, Nothofagus leaves, wood, and insect remains recently discovered in ancient lake sediments from the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The area will be studie...