Macquarie Island: A window into the oceanic crust and upper mantle

Because of the inaccessibility of the deep-ocean floor, our knowledge about the composition and structure of the oceanic crust is very limited. Macquarie Island is the only fragment of ocean crust exposed above sea-level in the world, providing a unique opportunity to study the ocean crust directly...

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Other Authors: CAWOOD, PETER (hasPrincipalInvestigator), CAWOOD, PETER (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
geoscientificInformation
oceans
OCEAN CRUST DEFORMATION
EARTH SCIENCE
SOLID EARTH
GRAVITY/GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
CRUSTAL MOTION
MACQUARIE ISLAND
MID-OCEAN RIDGES
OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE
OPHIOLITES
SHEETED DYKES
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Southern Ocean
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/macquarie-island-window-upper-mantle/699574
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1208
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

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