Antarctic earth science / edited by R.L. Oliver and P.R. James and J.B. Jago.

Papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Adelaide, S. Aust., Aug. 16-20, 1982 and sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and others.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Precambrian geological evolution of the East Antarctic metamorphic shield : a review / P.R. James and R.J. Tingey -- Geological history of the Archaean Napier Complex of Enderby Land / L.R Black and P.R. James -- The geology of the Fyfe Hills-Khmara Bay region, Enderby Land / M.A. Sandiford and C.J.L. Wilson -- The Napier and Rayner complexes of Enderby Land, Antarctica : contrasting styles of metamorphism and tectonism / D.J. Ellis -- Regional geobarometry-geothermometry and metamorphic evolution of Enderby Land, Antarctica / S.L. Harley -- Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of Enderby Land granulites. evidence for the redistribution of Sm and Nd during metamorphism (abstract) / M.T. McCulloch and L.P. Black -- Geology and petrology of Prince Olav coast, East Antarctica / Y. Hiroi [and others] -- Tectonic situation of L�utzow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica and its significance in Gondwanaland / M. Yoshida and K. Kizaki -- Sapphirine-garnet and associated parageneses in Antarctica / E.S. Grew -- A review of the tectonic and metamorphic history of the Lutzow-Holm Bay region, East Antarctica / M. Yoshida [and others] -- Spinels in calc-silicate rocks from the coast of Lutzow-Holm Bay and surrounding areas (abstract) / H. Matsueda, Y. Matsumoto and Y. Motoyoshi -- Petrochemical study of metamorphic rocks in the Lutzow-Holm Bay area, East Antarctica (abstract) / S. Kanisawa and K. Yanai -- Geology and petrology of the Yamato Mountains / K. Shiraishi, M. Asami and Y. Ohta -- Geology and petrology of the Belgica Mountains (abstract) / H. Kojima, K. Yanai and T. Nishida -- Lead isotopic composition in metamorphic rocks from Skarvsnes, East Antarctica / H. Shirahata -- Sr- isotopic studies of some intrusive rocks in the Ahlmann Ridge and Annandagstoppane, western Queen Maud Land, Antarctica / J.M. Barton Jr. and Y.E. Copperthwaite -- Preliminary report on the geochemistry and petrology of some igneous rocks in the Ahlmanryggen and Giaeverryggen, western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica (abstract) / J.R. Krynauw -- Petrology and zircon geochronology of Herring Island and Commonwealth Bay and evidence for Gondwana reconstruction / R.L. Oliver, J.A. Cooper and A.J. Truelove -- Manganese-rich chemical sediments from Wilkes Land, Antarctica / I.R. Plimer and J.R Lovering -- A reassessment of the age of the Windmill metamorphics, Casey area / I.S. Williams [and others] -- Lithological and Sr-Nd isotopic relationships in the Vestfold block : implications for Archaean and Proterozoic crustal evolution in the East Antarctic / K.D. Collerson [and others] -- Structure, fabric development and metamorphism in Archaean gneisses of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica / A.J. Parker [and others] -- A review of the Ross fold belt of the Transantarctic Mountains as a boundary structure between East Antarctica and West Antarctica (abstract) / G.E. Grikurov -- The East Antarctica-West Antarctica boundary between the ice shelves : a review / C. Craddock -- The pre-Beacon geology of northern Victoria Land : a review / J.D. Bradshaw and M.G. Laird -- The sedimentology of the Robertson Bay Group, northern Victoria Land / B.D. Field and R.H. Findlay -- Tectonic significance of deformations affecting the Robertson Bay Group and associated rocks, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / R.H. Findlay and B.D. Field -- Geology of the Daniels Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica : a preliminary report / C.C. Plummer [and others] -- Geology of the Daniels Range intrusive complex northern Victoria Land, Antarctica (abstract) / R.S. Babcock [and others] -- Trends in regional metamorphism and deformation in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / G. Kleinschmidt -- New data on the Lower Palaeozoic Bowers Supergroup, northern Victoria Land / M.G. Laird and J.D. Bradshaw -- Geosynclinal sedimentation and Ross orogeny in northern Victoria Land (abstract) / F. Tessensohn -- Age and correlation of the Cambrian-Ordovician Bowers Supergroup, northern Victoria Land / R.A. Cooper [and others] -- Post-Mindyallan late Cambrian trilobite faunas from Antarctica (abstract) / J.H. Shergold -- Post-Ross orogeny cratonisation of northern Victoria Land / G.W. Grindley and P.J. Oliver -- Geochemistry, petrography and geochronology of the Cambro-Ordovician and Devonian-Carboniferous granitoids of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / U. Vetter [and others] -- Chemistry of Palaeozoic granites of northern Victoria Land (abstract) / D. Wyborn -- Chemical control on stratigraphic relations in northern Victoria Land and some possible relations with SE Australia (abstract) / D. Wyborn -- Results of palaeomagnetic investigations in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / G. Delisle -- The geology of Terra Nova Bay / D.N.B. Skinner -- The petrology and origin of orbicular tonalite from western Taylor Valley, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica / P.S. Dahl and D.F. Palmer -- The granites and two orogenies of southern Victoria Land / D.N.B. Skinner -- A re-interpretation of the basement granites, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (abstract) / R.H. Findlay -- Petrology and geochemistry of the Queen Maud batholith, central Transantarctic Mountains, with implications for the Ross orogeny / S.G. Borg -- Type locality of the Ackerman Formation, La Gorce Mountains, Antarctica / E. Stump -- The structural development of selected areas in the Pensacola Mountains (abstract) / A. Frischbutter [and others] -- A geochronological investigation of the Shackleton Range / R.J. Pankhurst, P.D. Marsh, P.D. Clarkson -- Tectonics and relationships between structural stages in the Precambrian of the Shackleton Range, western margin of the East Antarctic craton / J. Hoffmann and H.J. Paech -- The late Precambrian and early Palaeozoic history of the Shackleton Range, Coats Land / P.D. Marsh -- Structure and outline of geologic history of the southern Weddell Sea Basin / E.N. Kamenev and V.L. Ivanov -- Magnetic studies of upper crustal structure in West Antarctica and the boundary with East Antarctica / E.J. Jankowski, D.J. Drewry and J.C. Behrendt -- Crust and upper mantle study of McMurdo Sound / L.D. McGinnis [and others] -- The Beacon Supergroup of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / B.C. Walker -- Trace fossils of the Permian-Triassic Takrouna Formation, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / J.M. Zawiskie, J.W. Collinson and W.R. Hammer -- Permian-Triassic sedimentary sequence in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica / J.W. Collinson and N.R. Kemp -- Late Palaeozoic glacigene strata in northern Victoria Land (abstract) / B.C. McKelvey and B.C. Walker -- Deposition of the Weller coal measures (Permian) in south Victoria Land (abstract) / A.R. Pyne -- Formational mapping of the Beacon Supergroup type area with special reference to the Weller coal measures, south Victoria Land, Antarctica / K.J. Whitby, G. Rose and C.T. McElroy -- Environmental interpretation of the New Mountain subgroup -- marine or non-marine? (Beacon Supergroup) (abstract) / R.W. Plume -- Isotopic and chemical variations in Kirkpatrick basalt group rocks from south Victoria Land / P.R. Kyle, R.L Pankhurst and J.R. Bowman -- The depositional environment of the Lower Devonian Horlick Formation, Ohio Range / M.A. Bradshaw and L. McCartan -- p40sAr/p39sAr age spectra and palaeomagnetic measurements of Ferrar Supergroup samples from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica (abstract) / P.R. Kyle [and others].

Geology and plate tectonic setting of the Orville coast and eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica / P.D. Rowley [and others] -- Geology of Pagano Nunatak and the Hart Hills / G.R Webers [and others] -- Low-grade metamorphism in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica / R.L. Bauer -- Palaeontological and stratigraphic investigations in the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica / G.F. Webers and K.B. Sporli -- Palaeozoic carbonate rocks of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (abstract) / W. Buggisch -- Structural and metamorphic history of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica / M. Yoshida -- Subglacial morphology between Ellsworth Mountains and Antarctic Peninsula : new data and tectonic significance / C.S.M. Doake, R.D. Crabtree and I.W.D. Dalziel -- Swanson Formation and related rocks of Marie Byrd Land and a comparison with the Robertson Bay Group of northern Victoria Land / J.D. Bradshaw, P.B. Andrews and B.D. Field -- Upper Cambrian archaeocyathans : new morphotype (abstract) / F. & M. Debrenne and G.F. Webers -- The evolution of the Scotia Arc : a review / I.W.D. Dalziel -- The Antarctic Peninsula -- a late Mesozoic-Cenozoic arc (review) / M.R.A. Thomson, R.J. Pankhurst and P.D. Clarkson -- Tithonian (uppermost Jurassic)-Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) spores, pollen and microplankton from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica / R.A. Askin -- Cretaceous inoceramid bivalves from Antarctica / J.A. Crame -- Conglomeratic strata of Mesozoic age at Hope Bay, northern Antarctic Peninsula / D.H. Elliot and T.M. Gracanin -- The Jurassic Latady Formation, southern Antarctic Peninsula / T.S. Laudon [and others] -- Late Jurassic ammonites from the Orville coast, Antarctica / M.R.A. Thomson -- A new marsupial from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula / M.O. Woodburne and W.J. Zinsmeister -- Evolution of late Mesozoic sedimentary basins in the northern Antarctic Peninsula / G.W. Farquharson -- Age of post-Gondwanian calc-alkaline volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula region / M.R.A. Thomson and R.J. Pankhurst -- The Seal Nunataks : an active volcanic group on the Larsen ice shelf, West Antarctica / O. Gonzalez-Ferran -- Petrogenetic aspects of the Jurassic-early Cretaceous volcanism, northernmost Antarctic Peninsula / R.D. Hamer -- An early Miocene ridge crest-trench collision on the south Scotia Ridge near 36�W (abstract) / P.R Barker, P.L. Barber and E.C. King -- The Larsen Rift : an active extension fracture in West Antarctica / O. Gonzalez-Ferran -- The mid-Mesozoic to mid-Cenozoic active plate margin of the Antarctic Peninsula / D.H. Elliot -- A geochemical overview of subduction-related igneous activity in the South Shetland Islands, lesser Antarctica / J.L. Smellie -- The age and geochemistry of some rocks from the South Shetland Islands (abstract) / D.H. Elliot, D.D. Dupre and T.M. Gracanin -- Contrasting origins and implications of garnet in rocks of the Antarctic Peninsula / A.B. Moyes and R.D. Hamer -- Blueschist relic clinopyroxenes of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands) : their composition. origin and some tectonic implications / F. Herve, E. Godoy and J. Davidson -- Rb-Sr age constraints on the ages of basement rocks of the Antarctic Peninsula / R.J. Pankhurst -- Petrology, geochemistry and origin of I- and S-type 'granites' in the southernmost Andes (abstract) / E. Nelson and D. Elthon -- Problems in Antarctic marine geology : a review / L.A. Frakes -- Bottom-current erosion in the southeast Indian and southwest Pacific Oceans during the last 5.4 million years / M.T. Ledbetter [and others] -- Recent BMR magnetic surveys of the southeast Indian Ocean / H.M.J. Stagg, D.C. Ramsay and R. Whitworth -- Sedimentary dynamics of the Antarctic continental shelf / J.B. Anderson [and others] -- Bottom-current erosion in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean / M.T. Ledbetter and P.F. Ciesielski -- Mesozoic to Holocene biostratigraphic framework for the Falkland plateau and southeast Argentine Basin (abstract) / I.A. Bassov [and others] -- Geological implications of recycled palynomorphs in continental shelf sediments around Antarctica / E.M. Truswell -- Middle-late Miocene palaeoenvironment of the circum-Antarctic (abstract) / P.F. Ciesielski, M.T. Ledbetter and F.M. Weaver -- Paleocene radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Southern Ocean (abstract) / Hsin Y. Ling -- Marine geology of the George V continental margin : combined results of deep freeze 79 and the 1911-14 Australasian Expedition / E.W. Domack and J.B. Anderson -- Benthic foraminifera of McMurdo Sound / B.L. Ward -- Siliceous biostratigraphy and the Ross Sea embayment (abstract) / Hsin Y. Ling -- Mineral resources potential in Antarctica -- review and predictions (abstract) / J.R Splettstoesser -- Metallogenic provinces of Antarctica / P.D. Rowley [and others] -- A metallogenic reconnaissance of Antarctic major structural provinces / G.I. Kameneva and G.E. Grikurov -- Geophysical and geological studies relevant to assessment of the petroleum resources of Antarctica / J.C. Behrendt -- Radiometric survey in northern Victoria Land / G.A.M. Dreschhoff, E.J. Zeller and W.R. Kropp -- Reconnaissance of minor metal abundances and possible resources of the Dufek intrusion, Pensacola Mountains / A.B. Ford [and others] -- Porphyry-type copper deposits and K-Ar ages of plutonic rocks of the Orville coast and eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica (abstract) / P.D. Rowley [and others].

Amery ice shelf topography from satellite radar altimetry / R.L. Brooks [and others] -- Evaluation of Landsat 3 RBV images for earth science studies in Antarctica / J.G. Ferrigno, R.S. Williams Jr. and T.M. Kent -- The problem and significance of radiocarbon geochronology in Antarctica / K. Omoto -- Provenance dates of feldspar in glacial deposits, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica / K.S. Taylor and G. Faure -- Use of soils in studying the behaviour of the McMurdo ice dome / J.G. Bockheim -- A reconstruction of the Quaternary ice cover on Marion Island / K. Hall -- Late Quaternary ice movement across the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica / D.A. Adamson and J. Pickard -- Perenially frozen lakes at glacier/rock margins, East Antarctica / J. Pickard and D.A. Adamson -- A preliminary study of the evolution of the post late Pleistocene Vestfold Hills environment, East Antarctica / Zhang Qingsong, Xie Youyu and Li Yuanfang -- Periglacial landforms in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica : preliminary observations and measurements / Zhang Qingsong -- Surface geology and geomorphology of the Lutzow-Holm Bay region, Antarctica -- an interim report (abstract) / Y. Yoshida, K. Moriwaki and K. Sasaki -- Glacial erosion and morphology of the eastern and southeastern Weddell Sea shelf / A. Elverh�i and G. Maisey -- Crustal structure of Antarctica from geophysical evidence : a review / C.R. Bentley -- Antarctic crustal structure from geophysical evidence : a review / I.N. Kadmina [and others] -- Isostatic displacement of Antarctic lithosphere (abstract) / D.J. Drewry, E.J. Jankowski and R.H.N. Steed -- Magnetic anomalies over Antarctica measured from Magsat / M.H. Ritzwoller and C.R. Bentley -- Results from an aeromagnetic and radio echo ice-sounding survey over the Dufek intrusion, Antarctica (abstract) / J.C. Behrendt [and others] -- Crustal structure of the Mizuho plateau, Antarctica, revealed by explosion seismic experiments / A. Ikami [and others] -- Subglacial geology at Dome C (abstract) / D.D. Blankenship and C.R. Bentley -- Heat flow measurements in Lutzow-Holm Bay, Antarctica -- a preliminary study / K. Kaminuma and T. Nagao -- Geophysical investigation in the eastern part of Lutzow-Holm Bay, Antarctica / K. Kaminuma and K. Shibuya -- Interpretation of geophysical surveys -- longitude 45� to 65�E, Antarctica / P. Wellman -- Preliminary report of a marine geophysical survey between Davis and Mawson stations, 1982 / H.M.J. Stagg, D.C. Ramsay and R. Whitworth -- Sedimentary basins of the Ross Sea, Antarctica / F.J. Davey, K. Hinz and H. Schroeder -- Sedimentary basins of Antarctica and their preliminary structural and morphological classification / V.L. Ivanov -- A review of late Cretaceous-Cenozoic stratigraphy, tectonics, palaeontology and climate in the Ross Sector (abstract) / P.N. Webb -- Sedimentation in the Ross embayment : evidence from RISP Core 8 (1977/78) / G. Faure and K.S. Taylor -- Modern sedimentation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica / P.J. Barrett, A.R. Pyne and B.L. Ward -- A revised history of glacial sedimentation in the Ross Sea region / M.L. Savage and P.F. Ciesielski -- Climatic, palaeo-oceanographic and tectonic interpretation of Palaeogene-Neogene biostratigraphy from MSSTS-1 drillhole, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (abstract) / P.N. Webb -- The age of sediments at the J-9 drilling site, Ross ice shelf (abstract) / H.T. Brady -- Climatic and tectonic implications for the late Cenozoic in the McMurdo Sound region from offshore drilling (MSSTS-1) (abstract) / P.J. Barrett and B.C. McKelvey -- Fission track geochronology of granitoids and uplift history of the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica (abstract) / A.J.W. Gleadow -- Structural interpretations of Wilkes Land, Antarctica / R.H.N. Steed -- Palaeomagnetism of Cretaceous volcanic rocks from Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica / G.W Grindley and P.J. Oliver -- The position of Antarctica within Gondwana in the light of Palaeozoic orogenic development / H. Miller -- Australia-Antarctic breakup : apatite fission track evidence from South and Western Australia and East Antarctica (abstract) / K.U. Ferguson [and others] -- Breakup of Gondwana : apatite fission track dating evidence from southeast Australia (abstract) / M.E. Moore, A.J.W. Gleadow and J.F. Lovering -- A Gondwana reconstruction between Antarctica and South Africa / J. Hofmann and W. Weber -- The labyrinthodont amphibians of the earliest Triassic from Antarctica, Tasmania and South Africa / J.W. Cosgriff and W.R. Hammer -- Palaeoclimatic significance of some Mesozoic Antarctic fossil floras / T.H. Jefferson -- The reconstruction of lesser Antarctica within Gondwana (abstract) / P.D. Clarkson -- Secular motion of the South magnetic pole / P.M. McGregor, A.J. McEwin and J.C. Dooley -- The American-Antarctic ridge/Bouvet triple junction (abstract) / L.A. Lawver and H.J.B. Dick -- Project Investigator-I : evolution of the Australia-Antarctic discordance deduced from a detailed aeromagnetic study / P.R. Vogt, N.Z. Cherkis and G.A. Morgan -- Project Investigator-I : bathymetric analysis of the Australia-Antarctic discordance (abstract) / N.Z. Cherkis, P.R. Vogt and G.A. Morgan -- Measurements of the triangulation network at the Allan Hills meteorite icefield / J.O. Annexstad and L. Schultz -- Results of meteorite search and recovery activities in the vicinity of the Allan Hills, Antarctica, Dec. 1981-Jan. 1982 / J.W. Schutt [and others] -- The remarkably low surface density of meteorites at Allan Hills and implications in this for climate change / W.A. Cassidy -- Antarctic meteorites (abstract) / K. Yanai -- Similarities and differences between the Yamato Mountains and Victoria Land meteorite concentrations (abstract) / W.A. Cassidy -- Volcanic evolution of Heard and McDonald islands, southern Indian Ocean / I. Clarke, I. McDougall and D.J. Whitford -- Microfossil evidence for the age and environment of deposition of sediments of Heard and McDonald islands / P.G. Quilty [and others] -- Chrono-spatial evolution of the volcanic activity in southeastern Kerguelen (TAAF) / J. Nougier, D. Pawlowski and J.M. Cantagrel -- A study of Kerguelen plutonism : petrology, geochronology and geological implications / A. Giret and J. Lameyre -- Volcanology of Possession Island, Crozet Archipelago (TAAF) / L. Chevallier, J. Nougier and J.M. Cantagrel -- The Macquarie Island ophiolite complex : major and trace element geochemistry of the lavas and dykes (abstract) / B.J. Griffin and R. Varne -- Petrology of igneous rocks on Campbell Island (abstract) / P. Morris -- Rates of uplift and the scale of ice level instabilities recorded by volcanic rocks in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica / W.E. LeMasurier and D.C. Rex -- Seismological observation on Mt. Erebus, 1980-1981 / T. Takanami [and others] -- The geology of the mid-Miocene McMurdo volcanic group at Mount Morning, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (abstract) / P.R. Kyle and H.L. Muncy -- Nd and Sr isotope geochemistry of leucite-bearing lavas from Gaussberg, eastern Antarctica / K.D. Collerson and M.T. McCulloch.

Contains 174 papers, in complete or abstract form, presented at the fourth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Adelaide, south Australia from August 16-20, 1982. This volume contains a record of the centenary activities celebrating Sir Douglas Mawson and the one hundred and seventy-four papers that were presented by delegates for discussion over the five days. Sir Douglas Mawson was part of the first team to reach the magnetic South Pole, a leading geologist and scientific figure during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. The papers presented during the symposium were divided into fifteen categories covering east and west Antarctica, marine, land and glacial geology, plate tectonics, islands, peninsulas, climatic change and Precambrian and Cenozoic era activity. The two hundred persons from sixteen countries who attended the symposium brought together a wide range of the most current expertise and research to share, of which this volume provides a record.