Faure, Gunter

The transantarctic mountains: rocks, ice, meteorites and water/ Gunter Faure, and Teresa M. Mensingh - New York: Springer, 2010. - 804 p.

Part I: EXPLORATION AND CHARACTERIZATION --
1. The Exploration of Antarctica --
2. Antarctica: The Continent --
Part II: THE BASEMENT ROCKS. --
3. Southern Victoria Land; Basement Rocks --
4. Northern Victoria Land --
5. Central Transantarctic Mountains --
6. The Queen Maud Mountains --
7. Horlick Mountains --
8. The Far-Eastern Mountains --
9. From Rodinia to Gondwana --
Part III: GONDWANA: GROWTH AND DISINTEGRATION --
10. The Beacon Supergroup --
11. Beacon Supergroup; Special topics --
12. The Ferrar Group: Kirkpatrick Basalt --
13. Ferrar Group: Dolerite sills and the Dufek intrusion --
14. Kirwan Volcanics, Queen Maud Land --
15. Break-up of Gondwana and Assembly of Antarctica --
Part IV: FIRE AND ICE --
16. Cenozoic volcanoes --
17. East Antarctic Ice Sheet.-18. Meteorites on Ice --
19. Glaciation of Southern Victoria Land --
20. Antarctica in Retrospect --

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Geology--Antarctica--Transantarctic Mountains
Discoveries in geography--Geochemistry

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