Landscape development and vegetation of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

• Main Author: John Pickard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified; Geomorphology; Botany; Geomorphology > Antarctic Regions > Vestfold Hills; Botany > Antarctic Regions > Vestfold Hills; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Sørsdal Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25949/19427654.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Landscape_development_and_vegetation_of_the_Vestfold_Hills_East_Antarctica/19427654

The Vestfold Hills (68°35'S 78°00'E) are a 400 km² ice-free oasis on the coast of East Antarctica. Low hills of Archaean gneisses are draped with Holocene till. The area is bounded in the east by the ice sheet and in the south by the Sørsdal Glacier. Present geomorphic processes are variab...