Antarctica

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591Aquatic ecology / Planktology / Physical geography / Phytoplankton / Plankton / Spring bloom / Primary production / Krill / Antarctica / Biology / Water / Biological oceanography

predatory protists which were abundant in January. We might also ask whether this bloom represented a normal successional phase that has simply been missed by undersampling in the past, or was it something rare, or new?

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592Flightless birds / Megafauna / Procellariidae / Penguins / Pygoscelis / Antarctic fur seal / Antarctic krill / Krill / Antarctica / Zoology / Physical geography / Taxonomy

Antarctic Journal, in this issue) and rates of primary production (Holm-Hansen et al., Antarctic Journal, in this issue). The results of these calculations will provide insight into the importance of nutrient recycling i

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593Glacier / Ice sheet / Antarctica / Pensacola Mountains / Dufek Massif / Transantarctic Mountains / Davis Valley / Glacial erratic / Ice shelf / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice age

types—slate, siltstone, sandstone, and dacite—but not on the coarse-grained intrusive rocks abundant in this area. These intrusive rocks appear to be so readily grussified that polish or striations, if originally pre

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594Physical geography / Ellsworth / Sentinel Range / Antarctica / Heritage Range / Mount Macalester / Webers Peaks / Geography of Antarctica / Ellsworth Mountains / West Antarctica

is not unreasonable to represent the volcanoes that have precaldera lavas less than 1 million years old as active," and the remaining ones that are less than 10 million years old as dormant. A more conservative represent

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595Extreme points of Earth / Ozone depletion / Oxygen / Mount Erebus / Antarctica / Ozone / Volcano / Stratospheric sulfur aerosols / Geology / Physical geography / Earth

ities to previous measurements. Ozone depletion was caused by a sink between 12 and 20 kilometers. Primary depletion was episodic and occurred in periods of fewer than 10 days. Measurements at the edge of the vortex disp

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596Queen Maud Mountains / Geophysics / Planetary science / Amundsen Coast / Physical oceanography / Earth tide / Transantarctic Mountains / Moon / Scott Glacier / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Tides

Granitic rocks were systematically collected on the traverse down Scott Glacier for later chemical analysis. In the Gothic Mountains a roof pendant of porphyry similar to the Wyatt Formation was visited and the granitic

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597Pedology / Ice wedge / Permafrost / Patterned ground / Beacon Valley / Wedge / Antarctica / Victoria /  British Columbia / Glacier / Physical geography / Geography / Geomorphology

It appears that this ice-margin position of the Victoria Upper Glacier was contemporaneous with that of the Victoria Lower Glacier, dated at approximately 10,000 years ago. It is expected that radiocarbon dates, to be de

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598Core sample / Environmental science / Geophysics / Glaciology / Well logging / Antarctica / Byrd Polar Research Center / Snow / Ice core / Physical geography / Earth / Extreme points of Earth

er quality display. The entire system is controlled by, and lowerspeed functions performed in, a portable computer. A moderately directional antenna was designed for sled use and a comparable design for Twin Otter use ha

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599Seismology / Thiel Mountains / Continental collision / Transantarctic Mountains / Orogeny / Paleomagnetism / West Antarctica / Pagano Nunatak / Geology / Plate tectonics / Geodynamics

cesses along the Antarctic Peninsula margin. Argon-40/argon-39 age spectrum studies have already indicated a Paleozoic age for the blue schist metamorphism on Smith Island (Grunow, Dalziel, and Harrison 1987), but no age

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600Antarctic region / Argentine Antarctica / British Antarctic Territory / Weddell seal / Pinniped / Weddell / Antarctic cod / McMurdo Sound / Antarctica / Physical geography / True seals / Megafauna

fatty acids, protein, carbohydrate, electrolytes, osmolarity) to supplement the small amount of published data on milk composition in this species. Field support for this work was supplied by the National Science Foundat

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:05:31
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