Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2005-06: VUWAE 50
Lower Victoria Valley (14 – 21 Nov)
Lower Victoria Valley (14 – 21 Nov)
- Sample ice in modern glacial and lake environments at snout of Lower Victoria Glacier. Sample buried ice and ice cemented sediment down valley (stream) from Lower Victoria Glacier.
- Sample several soil profiles for atmospheric Be-10 on top of buried ice, down valley from Lower Vic Glacier.
- Sample inflationary sand soils on the interfluves of lateral melt water channels. These sands will be dated by OSL to get an accumulation rate and approximate age of interfluve surface.
- Collecting samples of granite plutons for Pb-Pb isotopic fingerprinting. This information will be used to identify sources of granitic clasts in glacial tills.