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Northern Victoria Land

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Northern Victoria Land in Fig. 4.1 extends from the David Glacier northward to the Pennell and Oates coasts. The width of the Transantarctic Mountains of this area increases to more than 400 km measured at the latitude of Cape Adare. The area is traversed by the Lillie, Rennick, and Matusevich glaciers all of which flow northwest and discharge ice into the South Pacific Ocean. Also, the Tucker, Borchgrevink, Mariner, Aviator, Campbell, and Priestley glaciers (not all of which are identified in Fig. 4.1) flow southeast into the Ross Sea.

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1.1 Age Determinations of Basement Rocks of the Terra-Nova-Bay Area

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1.2 Age Determinations of Granites and Metasediments of the Berg Group, Oates Land (Adams 1996, 2006)

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1.3 Age Determinations of Basement Rocks of the Lazarev Mountains, Daniels, Morozumi, and Lanterman Ranges, Wilson Terrane

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1.4 Age Determinations of the Basement Rocks in the Bowers Terrane

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1.5 Age Determinations of the Robertson Bay Group and Admiralty Intrusives, Robertson Bay Terrane

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1.6 Additional Photographs of the Geology of Northern Victoria Land

Figure 4.31 Wilson Gneiss, Daniels Range

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The Wilson Gneiss in Thompson Spur of the Daniels Range in Fig. 4.11 consists of black biotite schist that was intruded by a network of granitic veins. The granitic magma presumably originated from a center of migmatization at depth (Adapted from Tessensohn et al. 1981, Fig. 11, p. 62)

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Figure 4.32 Turbidites, Robertson Bay Group

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This folded sequence of turbidite beds of the Robertson Bay Group is located on the north side of Colbeck Bay (71°38´S, 170°05´E) in the southwest corner of Robertson Bay (Adapted from Wright 1981, Fig. 2, p. 131)

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Figure 4.33 Beacon Sandstone, Morozumi Range

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Sandstones of the Beacon Supergroup lie unconformably on basement rocks composed of black phyllites in the Unconformity Valley of the Morozumi Range. The Beacon rocks (Permian to Triassic) were intruded by a thick sill of the Ferrar Dolerite (Middle Jurassic) which now caps the mountain (Adapted from Tessensohn et al. 1981, Fig. 7, p. 52)

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Faure, G., Mensing, T.M. (2011). Northern Victoria Land. In: The Transantarctic Mountains. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9390-5_4

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