Terra Nova Bay

The Ross Orogen of southern Victoria Land extends across the David Glacier into the southern part of the Wilson Terrane of northern Victoria Land. The geology of this part of the Transantarctic Mountains in Fig. 4.6 

Campbell, Raymond Priestley, Murray Levick, Frank Browning, Harry Dickason, and George Abbott (Section 1.4.3). 

The geology of the area between the Campbell and the Aviator glaciers in Fig. 4.6 was mapped by Gair (1964, 1967), Ricker (1964), and by Skinner and Ricker (1968). Gair et al. (1969) and Warren (1969) compiled the available information into geologic maps of Victoria Land which includes the Terra-Nova-Bay area. The exploration of this area was continued by Nathan (1971a, b), Adamson (1971), Nathan and Skinner (1972), and Skinner (1972). 

Skinner (1983) published a summary of the geology of the Deep Freeze Range between the Campbell and Priestley glaciers in Fig. 4.7. This mountain range is primarily composed of the Granite Harbor Intrusives which form the Terra Nova batholith. Skinner (1983) 

The Priestley Formation of the Deep Freeze Range does not correlate with the metasediments of the Robertson Bay Terrane, contrary to a proposal by Nathan and Skinner (1972) who, at that time, had not yet visited the type locality of the Robertson Bay Group in Edisto Inlet (Skinner 1983). It seems more likely that the Priestley Formation is the local representative of the Koettlitz Group of southern Victoria Land because it occupies the same stratigraphic position as the Asgard Formation in the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land (McKelvey and Webb 1962 Section 3.1.2) and because both formations contain sedimentary carbonate beds. However, this conjecture has not been confirmed or even tested. 

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