Rocks from the project “Dating of tectonic activity along the Transantarctic Mountains front" (PNRA16_00263)

During the XXXIII and XXXIV Italian Antarctic expeditions (2017/18, 2018/19), 194 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the project "Dating of tectonic activity along the Transantarctic Mountains front" in northern and southern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic, volcanic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. The investigated regions are within Convoy Range ST 57-60/1, Franklin Island ST 57-60/2*, Mount Joyce SS 55-57/16, Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9, Reeves Névé SS 55-57/12, Relief Inlet SS 58-60/13 and Ross Island ST 57-60/6* USGS sheets.

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 Padova - Valerio Olivetti

Originator

University of Parma - Fabrizio Balsamo

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

GCMD - Science Keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

NASA Thesaurus

rocks

Lithology

Igneous material
Pyroclastics
Basalt
Basaltic rock
Cataclasite
Clastic sedimentary rock
Conglomerate
Dolerite
Fault rock
Fault-related material
Gneiss
Granite
Granitic rock
Metamorphic rock
Plutonic rock
Pyroclastic rock
Sandstone
Sedimentary rock
Tuff
Volcanic rock

GCMD - Instruments

Grabbers/Traps/Collectors

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Victoria Land
Asgard Range
Alatna Valley
Cape Archer
Burrage Dome
Bruce Point
Black Pudding Peak
Benson Glacier
Debenham Glacier
Cleveland Glacier
Charcot Cove
Cape Hickey
Cape Day
Dotson Ridge
Flagship Mountain
Gregory Island
Granite Harbor
Flint Ridge
Convoy Range
David Glacier
Evans Piedmont Glacier
Hughes Bluff
Lewandowski Point
Lion Island
Mackay Glacier
Kukri Hills
Cape Philippi
Mount Armytage
Mount Billing
Mount Bowen
Cape Reynolds
Larsen Glacier
Mount Endeavour
Mount Forde
Mount Gauss
Mount Gran
Mount Allan Thomson
Mount Jensen
Mount Marston
Mount Newall
Mawson Glacier
Kirkwood Range
Mount Razorback
Mount Smith
Mount Theseus
Oates Piedmont Glacier
Mount Harker
Mount Bellingshausen
Prior Island
Reed Nunataks
Saint Johns Range
Mount Perseverance
The Flatiron
Tiger Island
Tripp Island
Mount Doorly
Mount Crummer
Mount Gerlache
Mount George Murray
Mount Howard
Sawyer Nunatak
Mount Larsen
Mount Melbourne
Mount Murray
Mount Priestley
Whitmer Peninsula
Nussbaum Riegel
Prince Albert Mountains
Olympus Range
Wright Valley
Mount Janetschek

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA
IT/MNA

Research Organization

MNA - Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide

PNRA project

PNRA16_00263

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC-BY 4.0

Code: XXXIII and XXXIV 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: 2017-11-15

End date: 2019-01-03 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.

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.