Mount Walton
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Volcanic rock
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During the XV and XVII Italian Antarctic expeditions (1999/2000, 2001/02), 19 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the project "Concentration of meteorites: identification, collection, study" in northern Victoria Land. They include intrusive rocks and tephra. The investigated regions are within Freyberg Mountains SS 58-60/1 and Welcome Mountain SS 55-57/4 USGS sheets.
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This dataset includes all the ordinary chondrites H group collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 1991 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.
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This dataset includes all the ordinary chondrites L group collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 1991 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.
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During the XIX Italian Antarctic expedition (2003/04), 100 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the WIBEM project in northern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic and metamorphic rocks. The investigated regions are within Daniels Range SR 57-58/14, Sequence Hills SS 55-57/8 and Welcome Mountain SS 55-57/4 USGS sheets. Project: WIBEM (Wilkes Basin Eastern Margin): geophysical exploration of the eastern margin of the Wilkes Basin.
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During the XXXVII Italian Antarctic expedition (2021/22), 88 rocks have been sampled within the aim of “LARK” project in northern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic, volcanic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. The investigated regions are within Daniels Range SR 57-58/14, Freyberg Mountains SS 58-60/1, Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9, Mount Murchison SS 58-60/5, Mount Soza SR 57-58/15, Sequence Hills SS 55-57/8 and Welcome Mountain SS 55-57/4 USGS sheets. Project: Linking the Aviator and Rennick Glacier Kinematics.