Drilling for Antarctic Cenozoic Climate and Tectonic History at Cape Roberts, southwestern Ross Sea

  1. F. J. Davey1
  2. P. J. Barrett2
  3. M. B. Cita3
  4. J. J. M. van der Meer4
  5. F. Tessensohn5
  6. M. R. A. Tohmson6
  7. P.-N. Webb7
  8. K. J. Woolfe8

Article first published online: 19 DEC 2012

DOI: 10.1029/01EO00339

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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

Volume 82, Issue 48, pages 585–590, 27 November 2001

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Davey, F. J., P. J. Barrett, M. B. Cita, J. J. M. van derMeer, F. Tessensohn, M. R. A. Tohmson, P.-N. Webb, and K. J. Woolfe (2001), Drilling for Antarctic Cenozoic Climate and Tectonic History at Cape Roberts, southwestern Ross Sea, Eos Trans. AGU, 82(48), 585–590, doi:10.1029/01EO00339.

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  1. 1

    Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, N.Z.

  2. 2

    Victoria University of Wellington, N.Z.

  3. 3

    Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy

  4. 4

    Queen Mary College, University of London

  5. 5

    BGR, Germany

  6. 6

    British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, U.K.

  7. 7

    Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

  8. 8

    James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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Since the early 1990s, the Cape Roberts Project has been working to document, through sediment drilling, the proximal record of Antarctic ice sheet history and climate for the southwestern part of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has also investigated the tectonic history of the Transantarctic Mountain range of the West Antarctic Rift system and its links to the separation of Australasia from Antarctica over the past 55 million years. The recovered sedimentary sequences and the information they contain provide a record of environmental conditions when global temperatures were similar to those proposed for the end of this century, a test for models of ice and climate behavior, and a better understanding of the tectonic evolution of the region.

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