Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1978-79: VUWAE 23
PROGRAMME FOR VUWAE 23
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PROGRAMME FOR VUWAE 23
Victoria university of Wellington Antarctic Research Centre submitted three scientific projects to RDRC for the March meeting. These projects were approved in their entirety and passed on to Antarctic Division.
The projects involved a wide range of scientific disciplines and eight investigators:
A. | Glacial Sediment Studies
Final field season of a three year study of processes of entrainment, transport and deposition of debris in polar ice. Taylor Glacier is to be rechecked and a number of other areas searched for similar basal debris layers. A party is to work in the sea ice on the western side of McMurdo Sound sampling the sea floor and icebergs for sediment. |
B. | Beacon Studies
Samples to be collected at regular intervals through Devonian and Permian-Triassic Beacon strata for paleomagnetic measurements to establish a polar wander curve for south Victoria Land. A separate project entails a detailed study of the Permian coal measures at the head of the Dry Valleys. |
C. | Erebus Crater Studies
Further magnetic, seismic and usual observations of the activity in Mount Erebus crater to be made. |