Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1971-72: VUWAE 16
[introduction]
- An evaluation of the use of a portable coring drill for obtaining oriented paleomagnetic samples was undertaken. In all 19 sites were sampled using the drill at Cape Crozier, Cape Bird, Cape Barne and Hut Point Peninsula. Oriented block samples were also collected for paleomagnetic determinations at Cape Barne, Cape Crozier and Fang Glacier.
- Detailed mapping and sampling of the McMurdo Volcanic Group at Mt. Morning while the following localities around McMurdo Sound were visited and sampled:-
- Inaccessible Island.
- Mt. Cis (Cape Barne).
- Summit crater Mt. Erebus.
- Fang Ridge, Mt. Erebus.
- Abbotts Peak
Petrographic examination and detailed geochemistry will be carried out by Kyle on the material collected and the data will be used as part of Kyle's Ph.D. thesis.