A tephra chronostratigraphic framework for the Frontier Mountain blue ice field (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Curzio P, Laurenzi M, Mellini M, Zeoli A., FOLCO, LUIGI
• Other Authors: Curzio, P, Folco, Luigi, Laurenzi, M, Mellini, M, Zeoli, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Dome The; Frontier Mountain; Melbourne Mount; Mount Melbourne; Pleiades; Talos Dome; The Antarctic; The Pleiades; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/123801; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.017

Englacial tephra provide chronostratigraphic markers in the Antarctic ice sheets. Structural, mineralogical, geochemical and geochronological data on selected samples allowed the reconstruction of a chronostratigraphic framework for the Frontier Mountain blue-ice field-an important meteorite trap on...