Rocks from “Cape Roberts Project" (CRP)

During the XIII and XIV Italian Antarctic expeditions (1997/98, 1998/99), 18 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the international CRP project in southern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic, volcanic and metamorphic rocks. The investigated regions are within Taylor Glacier ST 57-60/5 and Ross Island ST 57-60/6* USGS sheets.

Project: Cape Roberts Project.

Date (Creation): 2021-10-01

Purpose: The collection is sorted towards Italian and foreign researchers for geoscience studies.

Status: On going

Point of contact

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Rosaria Palmeri

Principal investigator

University of Milano - Maria Bianca Cita

Originator

University of Siena - Franco Talarico

Originator

MNA - Sonia Sandroni

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

GCMD - Science Keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS

NASA Thesaurus

rocks

Lithology

Plutonic rock
Porphyroid
Igneous material
Volcanic rock
Calc-silicate rock
Aplite
Granitic rock
Granite
Metacarbonatic rock
Metamorphic rock
Marble
Migmatic rock
Migmatite
Phonolite
Phonolitic rock
Granodiorite

GCMD - Instruments

Grabbers/Traps/Collectors

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Victoria Land
Cape Evans
Gondola Ridge
Ross Island
Mackay Glacier
Redcliff Nunatak
Clare Range

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA
IT/MNA

Research Organization

MNA - Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC-BY 4.0

Code: XIII and XIV Italian Antarctic expeditions

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Campaign

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 1997-11-07

End date: 1998-12-09 Now

Unique resource identifier: WGS84

Distribution format

XLS ( 1 )
KLM ( 1 )

OnLine resource

GeoData ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Database for the rock samples taken during the PNRA expeditions since the 1985 and preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide.

OnLine resource: Cape Roberts Project ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource

Project: CRP ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Cape Roberts Project

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: Samples are stored in cardboard boxes inside metal cabinets in the MNA repository. Samples were weighed, photographed and magnetic susceptibility was measured. Slices were cut to make thin sections.