Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1985-86: VUWAE 30

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES	ii
SUMMARY OF VUWAE 30	1
PART I - SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
McMURDO SOUND SEDIMENT STUDIES (K042) - A. R. Pyne	2
Abstract	2
Introduction and Background	2
Results from seafloor sampling	2
Results from Sediment Trapping	5
Publication and future research	5
References	5
Acknowledgments	5page ii
GRANITOID STUDIES, ST JOHNS RANGE (K043) - K. Palmer and P. White	6
Abstract	6
Background	6
Programme	8
Results	8
Recommendations	11
Acknowledgments	11
References	11
FISSION TRACK STUDIES (K044) - P. G. Fitzgerald	13
Abstract	13
Introduction and background	13
Geological setting	15
Fieldwork in the Lower Beardmore Glacier Area	15
Fieldwork in the Miller and Queen Elizabeth Ranges	15
Publication and Future Research	16
Acknowledgments	17
References	17
PART II - FIELD NOTES
McMURDO SOUND SEDIMENT STUDIES (K042) - A. R. Pyne	18
Field Preparations	18
Narrative	18
Transport	19
Explosives	20
Radio communications	20
Weather	21
Remote stations	21
Itinerary for sea floor sedimentation studies (K042)	21
GRANITOID STUDIES, ST JOHNS RANGE (K043) - K. Palmer and P. White	24
Narrative	24
Transport	25
Communications	25
Weather	25
Field equipment	26
Itinerary for K043	26
FISSION TRACK STUDIES (K044) - P. Fitzgerald	27
Narrative	27
Transportation	28
Helicopters	28
Communications	29
Weather	29
Field equipment	30
Itinerary for K044	30
APPENDIX I - CARGO TO AND FROM ANTARCTICA	31
APPENDIX II - WEATHER RECORD FOR ST JOHNS RANGE, SOUTH VICTORIA LAND	32
VUW PUBLICATIONS 1985	34

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