Antarctica Contributions to Global Earth Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fütterer, Dieter Karl (Editor), Damaske, Detlef (Editor), Kleinschmidt, Georg (Editor), Miller, Hubert (Editor), Tessensohn, Franz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Mineralogy.; Sedimentology.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geography.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Geography, general.

Sixty articles arranged in eight thematic sections refer to most recent geological and geophysical results of Antarctic research. The Precambrian of the East Antarctic shield and its geological history is considered as well as sub-ice topography, geophysics and stratigraphy, sedimentology and geophy...

Table of Contents:

• History of Antarctic Research
• Antarctica — The Old Core
• The Continent Beneath the Ice
• Gondwana Margins in Antarctica
• Antarctic Peninsula Active Margin Tectonics
• Antarctic Rift Tectonics
• Antarctic Neotectonics, Observatories and Data Bases
• Sediments as Indicators for Antarctic Environment and Climate.