Antarctic Drilling Recovers Stratigraphic Records From the Continental Margin
The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) program—a collaboration between Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States that is one of the larger programs endorsed by the International Polar Year (IPY; http:// www .ipy .org)—successfully completed the drilling phase of the Southern McMurdo So...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:geosciencefacpub-1502 2023-11-12T04:05:37+01:00 Antarctic Drilling Recovers Stratigraphic Records From the Continental Margin Harwood, David M. Florindo, Fabio Talarico, Franco M. Levy, Richard Kuhn, Gerhard Naish, Tim Niessen, F. Powell, Ross Pyne, Alex Wilson, Gary 2009-03-17T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/497 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geosciencefacpub/article/1502/viewcontent/Harwood_EOS_2009_Antarctic_Drilling.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/497 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geosciencefacpub/article/1502/viewcontent/Harwood_EOS_2009_Antarctic_Drilling.pdf Papers in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Earth Sciences text 2009 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T11:36:12Z The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) program—a collaboration between Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States that is one of the larger programs endorsed by the International Polar Year (IPY; http:// www .ipy .org)—successfully completed the drilling phase of the Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS) Project in December 2007. This second drill core of the program’s campaign in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, complements the results of the first drilling season [Naish et al., 2007] by penetrating deeper into the stratigraphic section in the Victoria Land Basin and extending the recovered time interval back to approximately 20 million years ago. The primary objectives of ANDRILL (http:// www .andrill .org/) were to recover stratigraphic records from the Antarctic continental margin that document key steps in Antarctica’s Cenozoic (0- to 65-million- year- old) climatic and glacial history, and in the tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains and the West Antarctic Rift System [Harwood et al., 2006]. These two ANDRILL stratigraphic drill cores are guiding the understanding of the speed, size, and frequency of the past 20 million years of glacial and interglacial changes in the Antarctic region. The drill cores will help to establish, through their correlation to existing records and their integration with climate and ice sheet models, how these local changes relate to regional and global events. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet International Polar Year IPY McMurdo Sound Ross Sea Victoria Land University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Antarctic The Antarctic Ross Sea Victoria Land McMurdo Sound Transantarctic Mountains New Zealand Harwood ENVELOPE(165.817,165.817,-70.733,-70.733) |
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The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) program—a collaboration between Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States that is one of the larger programs endorsed by the International Polar Year (IPY; http:// www .ipy .org)—successfully completed the drilling phase of the Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS) Project in December 2007. This second drill core of the program’s campaign in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, complements the results of the first drilling season [Naish et al., 2007] by penetrating deeper into the stratigraphic section in the Victoria Land Basin and extending the recovered time interval back to approximately 20 million years ago. The primary objectives of ANDRILL (http:// www .andrill .org/) were to recover stratigraphic records from the Antarctic continental margin that document key steps in Antarctica’s Cenozoic (0- to 65-million- year- old) climatic and glacial history, and in the tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains and the West Antarctic Rift System [Harwood et al., 2006]. These two ANDRILL stratigraphic drill cores are guiding the understanding of the speed, size, and frequency of the past 20 million years of glacial and interglacial changes in the Antarctic region. The drill cores will help to establish, through their correlation to existing records and their integration with climate and ice sheet models, how these local changes relate to regional and global events. |
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Antarctic Drilling Recovers Stratigraphic Records From the Continental Margin |
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