Southern Victoria Land

Lyons, W.B., Welch, K.A., Fountain, A.G., Dana, G.L., Vaughn, B.H. McKnight, D.M. 2003. Surface glaciochemistry of Taylor Valley, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica and its relationship to stream chemistry. Hydrological Processes, 17, 115-130. 

Marchant D.R., Denton G.H., Swisher C.C. Potter N. 1996. Late Cenozoic Antarctic paleoclimate reconstructed from volcanic ashes in the dry valleys region of southern Victoria Land Geological Society of America Bulletin, 108, 181-194. 

Nylen, T.H., Fountain, A.G., Doran, P.T. 2004. Climatology of katabatic winds in the McMurdo dry valleys, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, 9. 

Welch K. A. 1993. Glaciochemical investigations of the Newall Glacier, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica In Earth Sciences. University of New Hampshire 92. 

Lyons W. B., Welch K. A., and Sharma P. (1998) Chlorine-36 in the waters of McMurdo Dry valley lakes, southern Victoria land Antartica revisited. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62, 185-192. 

Glasby, G.P., McPherson, J.G., Kohn, B.P., Johnston, J.H., Keys, J.R., Freeman, A.G. Tricker, M.J. (1981) Desert varnish in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 24, 389-397. 

Barrett P. J., Stoffer P., Glasby G. P. and Pluger W. L. (1984) Texture, mineralogy and composition of four sediment cores from Granite Harbour and New Harbour, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. NZJ. Geol. Geophys. 27,... 

A third party consisting of Raymond Priestley, Bertram Army tage, and Sir Philip Brocklehurst explored the Ferrar Glacier and the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land west of Ross Island. Both parties were picked up by the Nimrod and, after Shackleton and his men had returned from their trek, the Nimrod headed north and landed safely in Lyttelton Harbor on the South Island of New Zealand. Ernest Shackleton was knighted by the King of England for his achievements in Antarctica, but his career of geographic exploration did not end there. 

Next, the Terra Nova took a four-man team led by Griffith Taylor across McMurdo Sound in order to explore the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land (Strange and Bashford 2008). The members of this team included Charles Wright, Frank Debenham, and Edgar Evans. 

Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, Norway Allen AD (1962) Geological investigations in Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand J. Geol. Geophys. 5 278-294 Amundsen R (1912) The South Pole an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912. Two volumes. John Murray, London Anderson PJ (1974) Richard Evelyn Byrd polar explorer. The Iron Worker 28(4) 2-13... 

Numerous lakes and ponds occur in the ice-free regions of southern Victoria Land and in the Bunger Hills of East Antarctica. Some of these ponds contain highly concentrated brines that do not freeze even at -50°C. 

Fig. 2.15 A helicopter of the New Zealand Air Force on Shapeless Mountain of southern Victoria Land is being loaded with the camping gear of an American fieldparty in December of 1994. This example of international cooperation is characteristic of operations in Antarctica (Photo by G. Faure, December 1994)...

Table 3.1 Simplified geological architecture of the continental crust of the Transantarctic Mountains in southern Victoria Land...

The basement rocks of southern Victoria Land defined in Fig. 3.1 are exposed in an irregular belt along the coast and consist primarily of the Granite Harbor Intrusives of Cambrian age which intruded the folded metasedimentary rocks of the Ross Supergroup of Cambrian and Neoproterozoic age (Warren 1969). This outcrop belt extends from the David Glacier south to the Byrd Glacier and includes the basement rocks... 

Fig. 3.5 The western end of Wright Valley in southern Victoria Land is framed by the Olympus Range in the north and the Asgard Range in the south. Ice from the East Antarctic ice sheet of the polar plateau enters the valley via the Airdevronsix icefaU and forms the Wright Upper Glacier. The Labyrinth at its base was carved by meltwater streams flowing under pressure at the base of a glacier that once flUed the Wright Valley. Lake Vanda is peren-...

The basement rocks of the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land, including the area between the Ferrar and the Koettlitz glaciers farther south in Fig. 3.4, exemplify the structural complexity, lithologic diversity, regional metamorphism, and magmatic activity of... 

Fig. 3.6 The Balham, Barwick, Victoria, and McKelvey valleys of southern Victoria Land are ice-free because the flow of ice from the polar plateau via the Webb Glacier and the Upper Victoria Glacier is currently restricted. These valleys therefore expose metamorphic and granitic igneous rocks of the basement complex overlain unconformably by the Lower Devonian sandstones of the...

More recently, Allibone et al. (1993a, b) and Cox (1993) identified 15 major granitic plutons in southern Victoria Land and proposed a new set of names for than because the lithologic character of the plutons is sufficiently diverse to resemble several of the intrusives previously named by McKelvey and Webb (1962). The classification of Allibone et al. (1993a, b) consists of three groups of intrusives ... 

Fig. 3.7 Taylor Valley in southern Victoria Land stiU contains Sound. The Rhone Glacier descends from the valley wall on...

Fig. 3.8 Geologic map of the western Wright Valley in southern Victoria Land. This area is included in Fig. 3.5 (Adapted from McKelvey and Webb 1962)...

Ice-Free Valleys, Koettlitz Glacier, Southern Victoria Land... 

However, Mortimer (1981) and Findlay et al. (1984) who also worked in the area did not agree with the stratigraphic sequence proposed by Blank et al. (1963). Mortimer (1981) concluded that the Salmon and Miers Marble were the same layer of rock and that the Garwood Lake and the Marshall Formation were also the same unit. Findlay et al. (1984) who remapped basement rocks throughout southern Victoria Land subdivided the Koettlitz Group into the Marshall Formation, the Salmon Marble, and the Hobbs Formation but did not place them in stratigraphic order. 

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