Ice shelf

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151British Antarctic Territory / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / West Antarctica / Antarctica / Ross Ice Shelf / Ice shelf / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice sheet / Ellsworth Mountains / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Glaciology

effects when the results of the stable oxygen isotopic measurements become available. R. Alley has studied the 50-meter core obtained by the Polar Ice Coring Office. He has found grain size and firn-structural variations

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152Argentine Antarctica / British Antarctic Territory / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Aquatic ecology / International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions / McMurdo Sound / Plankton / Krill / McMurdo Station / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Antarctic region

made available by T. D. Foster, and J. G. Mitchell helped on the sampling cruise. Much of this study is part of a collaborative effort with S. E Ackley, and we thank him for his continuing support and involvement. Refer

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153Ice sheets / Ice shelf / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Greenland ice sheet / Ice core / Ice calving / Iceberg / Physical geography / Water ice / Glaciology

Physical studies of firn and ice cores on the Siple Coast clearly are of interest in understanding processes occurring in and adjacent to ice streams and in interpreting geophysical data collected on the ground and from

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154Argentine Antarctica / British Antarctic Territory / Antarctic region / Till / Thiel Trough / Antarctica / Weddell Sea / Ice shelf / Glacier / Physical geography / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Glaciology

sedimentary sequences lying seaward of these mountains. The source of the Mesozoic palynomorphs seems most likely to be in topographically low regions such as the northern end of the Thiel Trough and the Crary Trough, be

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155Earth / Loubet Coast / Oceanography / Glacial landforms / Magnetic susceptibility / Magnetism / Sediment / Antarctica / Muller Ice Shelf / Physical geography / Geology / Sedimentology

the central basin. Onboard examination indicated that both longer cores sampled a alternating sequence of terrigenous and diatomaceous muds and that organic content of the diatomaceous muds may be sufficient to allow rad

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156Physical geography / Geology of Australia / Petroleum / Reflection seismology / Passive margin / Continental shelf / Sedimentary rock / Paleozoic / Geology of the Falkland Islands / Geology / Plate tectonics / Historical geology

across the shelf (see Dunbar, Dehn, and Leventer, Antarctic this issue). This distribution was first noted by Truesdale and Kellogg (1969), who attributed it to less extensive summer sea ice cover in the western Ross Sea

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157Physical oceanography / Antarctic region / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Oceanography / Weddell Gyre / Ross Ice Shelf / McMurdo Sound / Ice shelf / Ross Sea / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Oceanic gyres

rafted debris in the shallower core is evident from the radiographs. Because the supply of ice-rafted debris to the seabed should be independent of bottom topography, the variation in abundance of ice-rafted debris betwe

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158Glacier / 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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159Glaciology / Physical oceanography / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Poles / Mixed layer / Polynya / Weddell Sea / Southern Ocean / Primary production / Physical geography / Earth / Aquatic ecology

Underlying the surface water all locations was the Weddell winter water. This layer reflected cooling and freezing which occurred during the preceding winter and had temperatures between about -1.5° and -1.7°C and a sa

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160Water / Oceanic gyres / Water masses / Aquatic ecology / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Weddell Sea Bottom Water / Weddell Gyre / RV Polarstern / Ocean gyre / Oceanography / Physical geography / Physical oceanography

also seen with the Polarstern 1986 data (Gordon and Huber in press). This is a strong indicator of the WDW heat which enters the mixed layer and is trapped below the insulating blanket of sea ice. The relationship of the

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