Dredging up Mawson: implications for the geology of coastal East Antarctica.

• Published in: Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
• Main Author: Truswell, EM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Royal Society of Tasmania; RST; Van Diemens Land; natural history; science; ecology; taxonomy; botany; zoology; geology; geography; papers & proceedings; Australia; Antarctica; Mawson; dredging; palynomorphs; recycling; continental shelf; ice shelves; Antarctic; Cape Carr; Carr; Commonwealth Bay; East Antarctica; Mertz Glacier; Shackleton; Shackleton Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22524/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22524/7/05%20Truswell.pdf

During the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition samples of bottom sediment were dredged from a wide sweep of coastline extending from the main base at Commonwealth Bay, to the western edge of the Shackleton Ice Shelf. An earlier study showed these sediments to contain palynomorphs recycled fr...