Description
Summary:Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned Statement: GIS dataset derived from eCat map product 74654 'Geology of Northern Jetty Peninsula, MacRobertson Land, Antarctica' and data sources identified therein. Purpose The dataset contains the shapefiles and associated metadata of the basement geology for the map product ‘Geology of Northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica', released in 2012 (eCat 74654). The Geology of the Northern Jetty Peninsula GIS dataset contains the shapefiles and tables of the basement geology of the Northern Jetty Peninsula in East Antarctica. This dataset is derived from the map product ‘Geology of Northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica'. Northern Jetty Peninsula, incorporating Else Platform (~140 km2) and Kamenistaja Platform (~15 km2), represents a mostly ice-free low-lying region located on the western flanks of the Lambert Graben. The region is underlain by granulite-facies Proterozoic gneisses and unmetamorphosed Permian sediments.