Igneous and volcanic rocks from the project “Magma-Ice interaction: late Miocene ice thickness and eruption tempo in northern Victoria Land” (MAGIC, PNRA18_0037)

During the XXXVIII Italian Antarctic expedition (2022/23), 126 rocks have been sampled within the aim of “MAGIC” project in northern Victoria Land. They include volcanic, igneous and metamorphic rocks, and sediment. The investigated regions are within Cape Hallett SS58-60/2, Freyberg Mountains SS 58-60/1, Mount Murchison SS 58-60/5 and Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9 USGS sheets.

Project: Magma-Ice interaction: late Miocene ice thickness and eruption tempo in northern Victoria Land.

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 - Sergio Rocchi

Originator

CNR-IGG - Samuele Agostini

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

GCMD - Science Keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS

NASA Thesaurus

rocks

Lithology

Igneous material
Plutonic rock
Basaltic rock
Porphyroid
Dolerite
Volcanic rock
Basalt
Pyroclastic rock
Ash
Lamprophyre
Lapilli tuff
Lapillistone
Pyroclastic breccia
Tuff
Pyroclastics
Tephra
Trachyte
Trachytic rock

GCMD - Instruments

Grabbers/Traps/Collectors

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

The Pleiades
Cape Hallett
Mount Harcourt
Southern Cross Mountains
Tinker Glacier
Inexpressible Island
Harrow Peaks
Victoria Land
Cotter Cliffs
Aviator Glacier
Random Hills

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA
IT/MNA

Research Organization

MNA - Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide

PNRA project

MAGIC PNRA18_00037

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC-BY 4.0

Code: XXXVIII 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: 2022-10-28

End date: 2022-11-15 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: PNRA18_0037 MAGIC ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Magma-Ice interaction: late Miocene ice thickness and eruption tempo in northern Victoria Land

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.