Pre-Beacon Geology of the Transantarctic Mountains

该奖项支持了一本综合南极横贯山脉的元古代和早古生代地质的专著的出版。在过去的十年中，我们对横贯南极山脉的元古代和早古生代地质历史的认识取得了一些突破：对北维多利亚地体的认识，对一个新的前。Nimrod冰川地区的灯塔变形事件，以及对元古代Nimrod和Beardmore造山运动作为独立事件区分的质疑。没有构造模式的发展。整个横贯南极山脉的灯塔，包括这些和其他最近的发现，还没有提交。首席研究员对元古代进行了持续的研究。1970年以来横贯南极山脉早古生代地质。专题论文将在P.I.期间完成他在英国剑桥的英国南极考察站休年假

This award supports the production of a monograph synthesizing the Proterozoic and early Paleozoic geology of the Transantarctic Mountains. Within the last decade various breakthroughs have occurred in our understanding of the Proterozoic and early Paleozoic geological history of the Transantarctic Mountains: the recognition of terranes in Northern Victoria Land, the recognition of a new pre.Beacon deformational episode in the Nimrod Glacier area, and a questioning of the distinction of the Proterozoic Nimrod and Beardmore Orogenies as separate events. No tectonic model for the development of the pre.Beacon of the entire Transantarctic Mountains, incorporating these and other recent findings, has yet been presented. The Principal Investigator has had a continuous research program investigating the Proterozoic.early Paleozoic geology of the Transantarctic Mountains since 1970. The monograph will be written during the P.I.'s sabbatical leave at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, U.K.