First rocks sampled in Antarctica (1840): Insights into the landing area and the Terre Adélie craton

• Published in: Comptes Rendus Geoscience
• Main Authors: Julien Reynes, Jérôme Bascou, René-Pierre Ménot, Rosaria Palmeri, Gaston Godard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: NEANIAS Atmospheric Research Community; General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Global and Planetary Change; Antarctic; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; The Antarctic; The Landing; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/83723; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2016.12.001

Abstract In January 1840, Dumont d'Urville's expedition landed along the coast of "Terre Adelie" and took three rock specimens, the first ever sampled on the Antarctic continent. The petrological and geochemical study of these samples, stored at the "Museum national d'h...