Significance of enigmatic blue ice moraine gypsum, Sør Rodane, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Jacobs, Joachim, Strauss, Harald, Kipfstuhl, Sepp, Weikusat, Christian, Elburg, Marlina, Läufer, Andreas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; East Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37554/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37554/1/SCAR_2014_BIG_JJc.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45197; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45197.d001

During the international GEA-II expedition to Sør Rondane (East Antarctica), large aggregates of crystalline gypsum were found within blue-ice moraines on the south side of the Sør Rondane Mountains at an elevation of ca. 2000 m and ca. 250 km inland of the present coastline. Gypsum aggregates reach...