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Current and Recent Projects :
Dr Andy Calvert, University of California, Santa
Barbara Some recent references Bannister,S., Snieder,R.K., and Passier,M.L., 2000. Shear wave velocities under the Trans-Antarctic Mountains and Terror Rift from surface wave inversion. Geophysical Research Letters 27, 281-284. Bannister,S., Melhuish,A., Henrys,S., Stern,T., and ten Brink,U., 1999. Deep seismic reflections beneath the Trans-Antarctic Mountain front, from reprocessed SERIS seismic data. Terra Antartica 6(4), 363-364. Henrys,S.A., Bucker,C.J., Bartek,L., Bannister,S., Niessan,F., Wonik,T., 2000. Correlation of seismic reflections with CRP-2/2A. Terra Antartica, 7(3), 221-230 Mortimer,N., Forsyth,P.J., Turnbull,I.M., 2001. Reassessment of faults in the Wilson Piedmont Glacier area : implications for age and style of Transantarctic Mountains uplift. In: Gamble,J. (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington (in press). Naish,T.R., Barrett,P.J. and Pyne,A.R, 2001. Report from ANDRILL New Zealand Science Workshop, 12 June 2001, Victoria University of Wellington. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Science Report 2001/19. 23p. Naish et al, 2001. Orbitally-induced oscillations
in he East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Direct evidence from Antarctic margin
drilling. Nature, 413, 719-723. |
Antarctica
was a part of Gondwanaland adjacent to New Zealand prior to 80 million
years ago, and its geological structure and evolution is of special
interest to NZ geologists. Our research at GNS concentrates on understanding
Antarctic ice sheet behaviour, the evolution, origin and structure
of the Transantarctic Mountains, and the associated evolution of
the Ross Sea sedimentary basins.