TY - BOOK AU - Faure, Gunter AU - Mensing, Teresa M. TI - The transantarctic mountains: rocks, ice meteorites and water SN - 9781402084065 U1 - 559.89 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Antarctica--Transantarctic Mountains -- Discoveries in geography Geochemistry -- Geography N1 - 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 -- ER -