Cenozoic Micropaleontology and Biostratigraphy of the Victoria Land Basin

该项目将记录麦克默多冰架的微型和大型动物群的内容。在消融过程中，全新世化石物质从麦克默多海峡南端的海底被抬起，并移动到冰架表面。目前的调查包括尝试根据水深、底物和动物退化程度来描述陆架不同区域的组合。该项目将包括实验室中的系统和同位素研究。尽管残骸丰富的冰架在今天的南极洲很少见，但新生代物质(包括化石物质)从大陆内陆到大陆边缘的运输程度表明，麦克默多冰架状天体在过去相当常见。全新世麦克默多冰架是这些早期新生代冰架最好的类似物。

This project will document the micro and macrofaunal content of the McMurdo Ice Shelf. Holocene fossil material has been lifted from the seafloor at the southern limits of McMurdo Sound and moved to the surface of the ice shelf during ablation. Current investigations involve attempts to characterize assemblages in different areas of the shelf in terms of bathymetry, substrate, and degree of faunal degradation. This project will include systematic and isotope studies in the laboratory. Although debris-rich ice shelves are rare in Antarctica today, the degree of transport of material (including fossil material) from the continental interior to the continental margin during the Cenozoic implies McMurdo Ice Shelf-like bodies were quite common in the past. The Holocene McMurdo Ice Shelf is the best available analog for these earlier Cenozoic ice shelves.