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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1974-75: VUWAE 19

[introduction]

A proposal outlining a programme involving six main scientific projects was submitted to the March meeting of RDRC. Among these projects was an expedition to Mt. Erebus, as detailed by Kyle. The VUWAE programme was approved and passed on to Antarctic Division.

In summary it was proposed to send eleven members to carry out the following projects and objectives:-
  1. Erebus expedition

    To continue geological and salt mapping and warm ground temperature measurements outside the main crater of Mt. Erebus and to extend this inside the crater system.

    To sample fresh lava and high temperature sublimates inside the crater system.

    To obtain records from a seismic network around and within the main crater and to correlate this with visual observations of activity in the inner crater.

  2. DVDP McMurdo Sound Drillhole/Glacial Sediment studies

    To log, describe and sample core from the DVDP hole in McMurdo Sound near New Harbour, and to sample present day analogues at the snout of the Taylor Glacier, and on the Ferrar Glacier near Table Mountain.

  3. Seismic Profiling in McMurdo Sound

    To profile the area of the McMurdo Sound drillhole and extend this to cover the whole Sound region thus allowing the stratigraphy of the drill core to be extended laterally.

  4. Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy

    To extend the chronology and correlation of glacial deposits in the Dry Valleys, mainly working on the Cenozoic bedded polymicton type sediments within the Taylor Valley.

  5. Basal Beacon Studies

    To study in detail at various localities the New Mountain Sandstone, the lowest formation of the Beacon Supergroup, to establish its environment of deposition, sediment transport direction, and age of the unit.

  6. Salts Project

    To continue the collection and mapping of salts in the McMurdo Sound region to determine distribution and migration processes of such salts, concentrating in greater detail on the Antarctic "soils".