Aeromagnetic Survey in Ross Ice Shelf-Transantarctic Mountains Area, Antarctica

该奖项支持与FRG联邦地球科学与资源研究所（BGR）合作，对南极洲罗斯-样带部分地区进行航磁调查。两架装备有滑雪设备的BGR多尼尔228地球物理飞机将从麦克默多站操作。调查的具体科学目标是：(1)罗斯冰架西北部；确定维多利亚陆盆的恐怖裂谷是否在罗斯岛以南继续存在，并确定是否存在与晚新生代裂谷有关的海底和冰下火山和次火山侵入；(2)罗斯岛，一座活火山大厦；定位薄火山覆盖的区域，这些区域可以用于陆地上的科学钻探地点。

This award supports an aeromagnetic survey of part of Ross- Transect, Antarctica, in cooperation with the FRG Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources (BGR). Two BGR ski- equipped Dornier 228 geophysical aircraft will be operated from McMurdo Station. Specific scientific objectives of the survey are: (1) The northwest part of the Ross Ice Shelf; to determine whether the Terror Rift in the Victoria Land Basin continues south of Ross Island and to establish the presence or absence of submarine and subglacial volcanos and subvolcanic intrusions associated with the late Cenozoic rifting; and (2) Ross Island, an active volcanic edifice; to locate areas of thin volcanic cover which could be used for scientific drilling sites on land.