Composition of dirt layers in the bare ice areas near the Yamato Mountains in Queen Maud Land and the Allan Hills in Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Takayoshi Katsushima, Fumihiko Nishio, Hirokazu Ohmae, Masao Ishikawa, Shuhei Takahashi
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University/National Institute of Polar Research/The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University/The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University/Kitami Institute of Technology 1984
• Subjects: Victoria Land; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Yamato; Queen Maud Land; Allan Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1683; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001683/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1683&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Dirt layers of tephra were found on the bare ice surface in the Meteorite Ice Field near the Yamato Mountains, Queen Maud Land, and in the bare ice area near the Allan Hills, Victoria Land. Their age is unknown but supposed to be several to several tens of thousands of years. Their constituent fragm...