An assessment of the gravity signature of the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Brad T. Bailey ◽  
Peter J. Morgan ◽  
Mark A. Lackie
Keyword(s):  
Country Rock ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Granite Gneiss ◽  
Summer Season ◽  
East Antarctica ◽  
Granite Pluton ◽  
Subsurface Geology ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
Windmill Islands ◽  
Modelling Process

AbstractA gravity survey was conducted on the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, during the 2004–05 summer season. The aim of the study was to investigate the subsurface geology of the Windmill Islands area. Ninety-seven gravity stations were established. Additionally, 49 observations from a survey in 1993–94 were re-reduced and merged with the 2004–05 data. A three-dimensional subsurface model was constructed from the merged gravity dataset to determine the subsurface geology of the Windmill Islands. The main country rock in the Windmill Islands is a Garnet-bearing Granite Gneiss. A relatively dense intrusive charnockite unit, the Ardery Charnockite, generates the dominant gravity high of the study area and has been modelled to extend to depths of 7–13 km. It has moderate to steep contacts against the surrounding Garnet-bearing Granite Gneiss. The Ardery Charnockite surrounds a less dense granite pluton, the Ford Granite, which is modelled to a depth of 6–12 km and creates a localized gravity low. This granitic pluton extends at depth towards the east. The modelling process has also shown that Mitchell Peninsula is linked to the adjacent Law Dome ice cap by an ‘ice ramp’ of approximately 100 m thickness.

Three-dimensional inversion modelling of a Neoproterozoic basin in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica

2008 ◽  
Vol 456 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 180-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. McLean ◽  
Timothy J. Rawling ◽  
Peter G. Betts ◽  
Glen Phillips ◽  
Chris J.L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
East Antarctica ◽  
Inversion Modelling

scholarly journals Finite-Element Simulation of the Barnes Ice Cap

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (90) ◽  
pp. 489-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Emery ◽  
E. A. Hanafy ◽  
G. H. Holdsworth ◽  
F. Mirza
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
Stress Dependent ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Element Method

Abstract The finite-element method is being used to simulate glacier flow problems, with particular emphasis on the surge behaviour of the Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island. Following an advanced feasibility study to determine the influence of major factors such as bed topography and flow relationships, a refined simulation model is being developed to incorporate realistically: the thermal regime of the ice mass; large deformations during flow and sliding; basal sliding zones; a temperature and stress dependent ice flow relationship; mass balance; and three-dimensional influences. The findings of the advanced feasibility study on isothermal, steady-state flow of the Barnes Ice Cap are presented in the paper before turning to a detailed discussion of the refined simulation model and its application to surging. It is clear that the finite-element method allows necessary refinements not available to analytical approaches.

scholarly journals Finite-Element Simulation of the Barnes Ice Cap

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (90) ◽  
pp. 489-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Emery ◽  
E. A. Hanafy ◽  
G. H. Holdsworth ◽  
F. Mirza
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
Stress Dependent ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Element Method

AbstractThe finite-element method is being used to simulate glacier flow problems, with particular emphasis on the surge behaviour of the Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island. Following an advanced feasibility study to determine the influence of major factors such as bed topography and flow relationships, a refined simulation model is being developed to incorporate realistically: the thermal regime of the ice mass; large deformations during flow and sliding; basal sliding zones; a temperature and stress dependent ice flow relationship; mass balance; and three-dimensional influences. The findings of the advanced feasibility study on isothermal, steady-state flow of the Barnes Ice Cap are presented in the paper before turning to a detailed discussion of the refined simulation model and its application to surging. It is clear that the finite-element method allows necessary refinements not available to analytical approaches.

A 9000-year record of Adélie penguin occupation and diet in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVEN D. EMSLIE ◽  
ERIC J. WOEHLER
Keyword(s):  
Population Cycles ◽  
East Antarctica ◽  
Adélie Penguin ◽  
Pygoscelis Adeliae ◽  
Pleuragramma Antarcticum ◽  
Fish Prey ◽  
Adelie Penguin ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Nest Site Fidelity ◽  
Windmill Islands

We investigated 17 abandoned Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colonies in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, in summer 2002/03. Forty radiocarbon dates on penguin bones and eggshells from 13 of these sites indicate a near continuous occupation by breeding penguins in this region for over 9000 years. These dates refine the recent geological record in this region and indicate that deglaciation of the northern islands occurred much earlier than previously suggested. Dietary remains from these sites include at least 23 taxa of cephalopods and teleost fish. Quantification of these remains indicates significant fluctuations in the relative abundance of two of the more common major prey taxa. The Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum Boulenger) was the most common teleost prey during all time periods represented by the ages of the sites, but preservational factors may explain a gradual decrease in the remains of this species in increasingly older sites. The most common cephalopod in the sediments was the squid, Psychroteuthis glacialis Thiele, which occurred in low numbers in most sites except one (Site 75). An unusually high number of squid beaks preserved in Site 75, dating to approximately 5700–6100 cal. yr BP, does not correlate with a decrease in fish prey at that time. The high number of abandoned penguin colonies (> 200) in the Windmill Islands may be due to population cycles in the past in association with low nest-site fidelity and movement by breeding penguins to new sites within this region.

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