Rocks from the project “Antarctic Meteorites" (AntMet, PNRA16_00029)

During the XXXIII Italian Antarctic expedition (2017/18), 18 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the AntMet project in northern and southern Victoria Land. They include intrusive and subvolcanic rocks and glacial deposits. The investigated regions are within Convoy Range ST 57-60/1, Reeves Névé SS 55-57/12 and Welcome Mountain SS 55-57/4 USGS sheets.

Project title: Antarctic Meteorites.

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 Pisa - Luigi Folco

Originator

University of Pisa - Matteo Masotta

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

GCMD - Science Keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
SEDIMENTS

NASA Thesaurus

rocks
glacial drift
sediments

Lithology

Igneous material
Clastic sediment
Granite
Granitic rock
Gravel
Pegmatite
Plutonic rock
Sediment

GCMD - Instruments

Grabbers/Traps/Collectors

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Victoria Land
Outback Nunataks
Miller Butte
Prince Albert Mountains
Oona Cliff
Mawson Glacier
Frontier Mountain
Larsen Glacier
Reckling Moraine

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA
IT/MNA

Research Organization

MNA - Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide

PNRA project

AntMet PNRA16_00029

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC-BY 4.0

Code: XXXIII Italian Antarctic expedition

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Campaign

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2018-01-02

End date: 2018-01-13 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

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

Antarctic Meteorites

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.