Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1979-80: VUWAE 24
Event 11b Cenozoic Studies Coombs Hills (3.5 miles NW of Mt Brooke)
Event 11b Cenozoic Studies Coombs Hills (3.5 miles NW of Mt Brooke)
page breakPLATE III. Construction of the drilling rig. D4 doxer was used to pull motor on to the drilling platform.
PLATE IV. Guy Holmes (driller) and Gerry Haugh (off-sider) join a new section of rod to the drill string.
PLATE VII. Steve Bressler (USGS) coring samples for paleomagnetic studies, using a drill press in the carpenter′s workshop at Scott Base.
PLATE VIII. Barry Walker (VUW) using a petrographic microscope for smear slide analysis of core. Biolab. (Scott Base)
PLATE XI. Diamictite (d), interbedded with carbonaceous shale (sh) and sandstone lenses (st) are lithologies of the Metschel Tillite Formation at Mt. Fleming.
PLATE X. Symmetrical ripples are formed in a thin calcareous bed in the Weller Coal Measures at Mt. Fleming.
PLATE XI. Blue Plateau ice encompasses the near-horizontal Beacon strata of Horseshoe Mountain immediately west of Mt. Fleming. Location of Plate XII arrowed.
PLATE XIII. Extensive planar cross beds are preserved in hastily sandstone (member B) which forms which forms an extensive platform at Horseshoe Mtn. (Plate XI arrowed)